Entry № 8553 · English origin

Rayleigh Rayleigh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"A roe-deer clearing"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a roe-deer clearing".

Rayleigh is a name of English origin, meaning a roe-deer clearing.

A roe-deer clearing — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Rayleigh
Transliteration
Rayleigh
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Rayleigh stands.

Rayleigh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rayleighs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Rayleigh.

The number behind Rayleigh.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rayleigh reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.