Rising since 2007, #9,457 for girls today.
Popularity of Raylynne since 2004
Babies named Raylynne per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 2014, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Raylynne's real moment was 2020.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls |
|---|---|
| 2000s | 10 |
| 2010s | 79 |
| 2020s | 48 |
Meaning & origin
Raylynne is a modern American coinage that blends the familiar short form Ray with the fashionable suffix -lynne, a spelling variant of Lynn. First recorded in 2004, it has been steadily rising in usage, particularly since 2007. The name reached its peak popularity in 2020, though it remains uncommon, with a 2025 rank of 9,457 and an incidence of about 1 in 160,727 births. Its combination of a straightforward first syllable with the trendy -lynne ending serves as a representative example of early-21st-century naming trends in the United States.
Raylynne is a modern coinage, blending the name Ray (itself a short form of Raymond, from Germanic 'counsel protection') with the popular suffix -lynne, a variant of Lynn. Such combinations became fashionable in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly in the United States, and Raylynne first appeared on the U.S. Social Security Administration's records in 2004.
Nicknames & variants
Nicknames: Ray, Lynne
Sibling names for Raylynne
Names that share Raylynne's style, for a brother or sister.
