Updated June 9, 2019

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Field of birds

Girl name variations

Raileigh

Raileigh

0 % this year
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Railey

Railey

+ 15% this year
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Raley

Raley

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Rawleigh

Rawleigh

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Rawley

Rawley

+ 64% this year
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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Dweller by the deer meadow

Boy name variations

Rawley

Rawley

+ 64% this year
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Rawly

Rawly

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Rawls

Rawls

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Leigh

Leigh

- 11% this year
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Lee

Lee

+ 3% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Raleigh

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Raleigh in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Radeleia, from Old English rēad ‘red’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
  • The English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) was born in Hayes Barton, Devon, into a family of Devon gentry. He was related to most of the West Country’s important families, including that of Sir Francis Drake. His half-brother was the explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In 1578 Raleigh was granted a patent to explore and colonize “unknown lands” in America.