Rayleigh
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#1,451
down −6 places
2025 births
149
down −4 births
All-time births
3,000
5% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2018
- 189 births
- Best rank
- #1,236
- in 2018
- First recorded
- 1995
- #11,467 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2016
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 31 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 2018189#1,236Peak
- 2017187#1,265
- 2019187#1,250
- 2022184#1,290
- 2020177#1,269
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,236 in 2018 · peak births 189 in 2018
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 3% boys■ 97% girls
98 boys · 3,000 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 Rayleigh has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.