Rawlings is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, on the McMullen Highway. As of the 2010 census, the Rawlings CDP had a population of 693.The community was named after Moses Rawlings, an officer in the Revolutionary War. It was originally known as "Rawlings Station" after a post office was established on the railroad there on March 7, 1856.