Raeleen
Feminine · “ewe”
Raelene is much commoner in Australia and New Zealand than it has ever been in America. It belongs to a whole set of Australian mid-century names built the same way — a short front element and an -ene or -een ending — that never crossed the Pacific in any quantity.
How old is the name Raeleen?
Raeleen first appears in US birth records in 1934 — 91 years ago. The typical Raeleen alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 500 people named Raeleen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Raeleen most popular?
Raeleen peaked in 1959, reaching #3254 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 7,663 places below that high. See the whole 1959 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Rachel to Raeleen
The story of Raeleen
Australia and New Zealand built their own stock of women's names in the middle of the last century, out of the same pieces America was using but in different combinations, and the results stayed local: Raelene, Maureen, Narelle, Sharlene, Kerrie and Jaylene are ordinary there and rare here. Raeleen is the American spelling of one of them. The ending is worth a note of its own, because it is Irish rather than English: the Irish diminutive -in was written -een by English speakers, which is where Kathleen, Maureen, Colleen and Doreen come from. Once the spelling existed it stopped being Irish and became simply a way of finishing a name.
Meaningscholars disagree
ewe, at one remove
Rae is a short form of Rachel, Hebrew for a ewe, and that is the only part with a documented meaning. The -leen ending has no source of its own: it is the American spelling of the sound that Irish -in produced in Kathleen and Maureen, later applied to anything. The compound as a whole means nothing.
How the name formed
- Rachel
- Rae
- Raelene
- Raeleen
Pronouncing Raeleen
RAY-leen
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a secondary beat on the second. ray-LEEN, with the weight at the end, is also used and is the more Australian of the two.
Nicknames for Raeleen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1934
- Most girls named
- 195914 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3254reached in 1959
- Change vs 2024
- +14.3%8 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Raeleens among us
people named Raeleen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Raeleen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Raeleen
- #10917
- Raeleen on the 2025 chart
- #943
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Raeleen went to 8 girls in 2025, but Raelen is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 17, which makes it the 943rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,974 places above the chart.
- Raelen9
- Raeleen8
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Raeleen itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Toba test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raeleen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Toba climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Toba's path sketches the road Raeleen is walking now.
Raeleen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Raeleen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Raeleen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two clear syllables that anyone can say after hearing them once.
- Rae works immediately as a short form and stands alone.
- It is genuinely uncommon in America without being unpronounceable.
- Raelene is the standard spelling in the countries where the name is actually common.
- The -een ending places the name firmly in the middle of the last century.
- Only half of it has a meaning, and that half is at several removes.
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Frequently asked
- How many Raeleens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Raeleen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Raeleen?
- Raeleen is one of 2 recorded spellings. Raelen is the more common one — 9 births in 2025 against 8 for Raeleen.
- How popular is the name Raeleen in 2025?
- Raeleen ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Raeleen?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Raeleen — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Raeleen with classmates?
- Raeleen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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