Raina vs Rainey

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Raina Rainey

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 109 years in which either name was published, Raina for 74 years and Rainey for 35 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1901–1947 Rainey ahead
• 1948–1950 Raina ahead
• 1951 Rainey ahead
• 1952–1957 Raina ahead
• 1958–1959 Rainey ahead
• 1960–2025 Raina 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.

Where each one is strongest

• Raina Florida (1.9×), Oregon (1.9×), Washington (1.8×)
• Rainey Texas (7.0×), Georgia (3.4×), North Carolina (2.0×)

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.

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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