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Raeann vs Raeanna

American parents have registered 3,915 Raeanns since 1880, against 1,718 Raeannas. Raeann is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raeann against Raeanna, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raeann Raeanna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 87 years in which either name was published, Raeann for 79 years and Raeanna for 8 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Raeann Raeanna
Total US births 3,9151,718
Most in one year 10774
Babies in 2025 228
Estimated living today 3,7001,700
Median age today 3525
Peak year 19981999
Best rank 1,551st girls2,073rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,554th10,917th
First recorded 19361941
Girls / boys 3,915 / 01,718 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Raeanns alive today are over 35; half the Raeannas are over 25. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raeann and Raeanna.