Gender-neutral · #1880 in 2025

Raleigh

Raleigh: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#1880
Born 2025
104
Peak year
2016

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Raleigh per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2016. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Raleigh has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 65% of its 2016 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 64% of children named Raleigh were recorded as girls and 36% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Related names

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Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.