Raynell
Recorded 1925–2023 · United States
Raynell was most popular in 1981, when 30 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,613 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,155 people named Raynell.
Raynell over time
How old is the name Raynell?
Raynell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1925, which makes it about 100 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 80 of the 101 years since.
How many people are named Raynell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,155 American births named Raynell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 996 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Raynell in 2025?
Raynell was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Raynell getting more or less popular?
Raynell is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 9 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Raynell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Raynell is a unisex name — 62.0% of the 1,155 Americans given it were girls and 38.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 1981 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 30% girls and 70% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Raynell?
Roughly 996 Americans named Raynell are alive today — 86% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 47 years old, and half are between 35 and 62.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org