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Raidyn vs Raina

American parents have registered 12,453 Rainas since 1880, against 751 Raidyns. Raina is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raidyn against Raina, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raidyn Raina

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

Raina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Raidyn had 52 and Raina had 287.

Side by side

  Raidyn Raina
Total US births 75112,453
Most in one year 55375
Babies in 2025 52287
Estimated living today 75012,000
Median age today 819
Peak year 20162011
Best rank 2,661st boys737th girls
Rank in 2025 3,036th914th
First recorded 20021946
Girls / boys 134 / 61712,453 / 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 Rainas alive today are over 19; half the Raidyns are over 8. That is 11 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: Raidyn and Raina.