Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from a place name meaning either “red clearing” or “roe deer clearing” in Old English, the name Raleigh is also borne by a city in North Carolina, which was named after the English courtier, poet, and explorer Walter Raleigh (1552–1618).
20062006: 47 births, rank #3,414
2007: 92 births, rank #2,163
2008: 86 births, rank #2,267
2009: 94 births, rank #2,139
2010: 105 births, rank #1,913
20112011: 99 births, rank #1,982
2012: 108 births, rank #1,859
2013: 119 births, rank #1,737
2014: 122 births, rank #1,714
2015: 156 births, rank #1,470
20162016: 170 births, rank #1,380
2017: 157 births, rank #1,441
2018: 149 births, rank #1,474
2019: 161 births, rank #1,392
2020: 147 births, rank #1,459
20212021: 136 births, rank #1,544
2022: 119 births, rank #1,742
2023: 126 births, rank #1,645
2024: 104 births, rank #1,913
20252025: 104 births, rank #1,880
Raleigh rose from #895 to #879 for boys between 1962 and 1965. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 139 births.