Rain vs Rainee

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Rain Rainee

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 59 years in which either name was published, Rain for 46 years and Rainee for 13 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1956 Rain ahead
• 1962–1969 Rainee ahead
• 1970–1976 Rain ahead
• 1977–1978 Rainee ahead
• 1979 Rain ahead
• 1980–1984 Rainee ahead
• 1985 Rain ahead
• 1988–1989 Rainee ahead
• 1990–2025 Rain ahead

Side by side

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 Rainees alive today are over 21; half the Rains are over 12. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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