Nameling

Raylei

Gender
Girl
Say it
RAY-lee
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Raylei is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

Where does Raylei come from?

Modern: invented respelling of Raylee or Rayleigh

Is Raylei a girl's or a boy's name?

Raylei is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Raylei in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Raylei, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.

2025 had more girls named Raylei than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Raylei in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 572 girls in the US were given Raylei or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #528, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.

2005Busiest: 11 in 20162025
Raylei in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
20240–
20230–
20226#13,586
20215#15,246
20205#15,083
20196#13,793
20188#11,422
20178#11,611
201611#9,408
20158#11,830
20147#13,063
20130–
20127#13,477
20118#12,146
20100–
20097#13,698
20088#12,574
20070–
20066#15,147
20055#16,455

Names like Raylei

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Raylei

Names related to Raylei

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Raylei: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raylei, updated 20 October 2026.