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Raidyn vs Raine

American parents have registered 3,860 Raines since 1880, against 751 Raidyns. Raine is still ahead, with 164 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raidyn against Raine, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raidyn Raine

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

Raine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Raidyn had 55 and Raine had 110.

Side by side

  Raidyn Raine
Total US births 7513,860
Most in one year 55193
Babies in 2025 52164
Estimated living today 7503,800
Median age today 813
Peak year 20162022
Best rank 2,661st boys1,395th girls
Rank in 2025 3,036th1,548th
First recorded 20021954
Girls / boys 134 / 6173,255 / 605

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 Raines alive today are over 13; half the Raidyns are over 8. That is 5 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 Raine.