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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Raleigh

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#2,222

up +60 places

2025 births

64

up +1 births

All-time births

9,279

1% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
139 births
Best rank
#357
in 1891
First recorded
1880
#499 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1957
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1921139#530Peak
  2. 1924138#542
  3. 1920134#530
  4. 1922131#553
  5. 1942127#547

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #357 in 1891 · peak births 139 in 1921

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 75% boys■ 25% girls

9,279 boys · 3,057 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Raleigh has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.