Name meaning & stats
Raleigh
Raleigh means “woodland, clearing”. 8,818 US babies since 1940, peak 2019.
What it means
“woodland, clearing”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2019
8,818 US babies were named Raleigh between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Raleigh (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Raleigh is the main spelling
- Raleigh 99%
- Raliegh 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2019)