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Raiden vs Rainn

American parents have registered 13,141 Raidens since 1880, against 590 Rainns. Raiden is still ahead, with 757 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Raiden Rainn

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 2021, when Raiden had 867 and Rainn had 78.

Side by side

  Raiden Rainn
Total US births 13,141590
Most in one year 96978
Babies in 2025 75746
Estimated living today 13,000590
Median age today 84
Peak year 20222023
Best rank 353rd boys3,911th girls
Rank in 2025 432nd5,917th
First recorded 19932006
Girls / boys 460 / 12,681304 / 286

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 Raidens alive today are over 8; half the Rainns are over 4. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Raiden Rainn
England and Wales 50142

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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