How popular is “Rayleigh” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Rayleigh” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rayleigh” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rayleigh” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Rayleigh” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1995	7	0.000001911	7		100%
1996	6	0.000001645	6		100%
1997	8	0.000002206	8		100%
1998	10	0.000002719	10		100%
1999	12	0.000003249	12		100%
2000	14	0.000003704	14		100%
2001	16	0.000004274	16		100%
2002	17	0.000004548	17		100%
2003	30	0.00000789	30		100%
2004	38	0.000009945	38		100%
2005	33	0.000008583	33		100%
2006	55	0.000013902	55		100%
2007	62	0.000015509	62		100%
2008	84	0.00002137	84		100%
2009	81	0.000021203	81		100%
2010	125	0.000033823	125		100%
2011	134	0.000036634	134		100%
2012	128	0.000034998	128		100%
2013	129	0.000035384	129		100%
2014	174	0.000046946	174		100%
2015	156	0.000042152	156		100%
2016	163	0.00004443	158	5	94%
2017	187	0.00005229	187		100%
2018	194	0.000055178	189	5	95%
2019	197	0.000056757	187	10	90%
2020	183	0.000054781	177	6	93%
2021	141	0.000041618	131	10	86%
2022	201	0.000059412	184	17	83%
2023	179	0.000054059	166	13	85%
2024	168	0.000050473	152	16	81%

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