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It's a combination of two very boring names that lacks both personality and class. Also, it sounds like railing.

This message was edited 5/18/2020, 2:31 PM

One word: Horrendous. I simply don't see the appeal. It's tacky, juvenile, low class and sounds like someone with a heavy southern drawl saying the word 'railing'
I knew a woman from school who named her daughter this a few years back but went with a different spelling, (Railynn) which I think is even worse. Sorry but if I were to come across this name again, (no matter the spelling) I would think very little of the parents. It would just come naturally.

This message was edited 5/18/2020, 2:03 PM

I like Rae. Raelynn looks bad to me and I don’t like the sound of it either. Sorry.

I used to hate it, but now I think it's actually pretty, cheerful and fun to say. Rae has more personality than Mae, Kay and similar names. And I prefer the double n ať the end because Lynn looks more complete than Lyn.

Sounds really country to me, and I don't tend to like names that sound really country. But your question prompted me to look it up and boy it's skyrocketed in popularity. Can't be only country people who are using it.

I like it. Perhaps because I like Rae / Ray on a girl.

Oh dear. What a train smash. Rae is twee, Lynn is dated, put the two together and you get something cheap, mass produced, synthetically coloured and flavoured, and sold to the gullible in crackly packets.

It's ok, Or Raelene

I love it. My preference is to use only one n. It's so clearly trendy and usually that's nms, but Rae for a girl really doesn't seem like enough on it's own and pairing it with another smallish name seems to work. I do say it sort of like railin' with only slightly more emphasis on that first syllable and I'm not sure if it's usually more annunciated.

I thought I invented it when I was 12 until I actually met one :P

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It's okay, not really my style but not bad. I've met a Raylyn but I think that looks weird with the two y's, so I'd prefer Raelyn (I think it looks better with one n, but two n's is better than two y's).

This message was edited 5/16/2020, 8:24 PM

It's not really my style but I knew a super sweet young lady named Raelynn once who I came to really admire so I always have her in mind when I hear the name. It isn't popular, has a pretty sound and could have the super cool nickname "Rae".