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Raiden vs Railynn

American parents have registered 13,141 Raidens since 1880, against 1,008 Railynns. Raiden is still ahead, with 757 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raiden against Railynn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raiden Railynn

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

Raiden has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Raiden had 523 and Railynn had 64.

Side by side

  Raiden Railynn
Total US births 13,1411,008
Most in one year 96980
Babies in 2025 75749
Estimated living today 13,0001,000
Median age today 88
Peak year 20222018
Best rank 353rd boys2,275th girls
Rank in 2025 432nd3,211th
First recorded 19932001
Girls / boys 460 / 12,6811,008 / 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.

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: Raiden and Railynn.