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Raine vs Rainn

American parents have registered 3,860 Raines since 1880, against 590 Rainns. Raine is still ahead, with 164 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Raine 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

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 2021, when Raine had 180 and Rainn had 78.

Side by side

  Raine Rainn
Total US births 3,860590
Most in one year 19378
Babies in 2025 16446
Estimated living today 3,800590
Median age today 134
Peak year 20222023
Best rank 1,395th girls3,911th girls
Rank in 2025 1,548th5,917th
First recorded 19542006
Girls / boys 3,255 / 605304 / 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 Raines alive today are over 13; half the Rainns are over 4. That is 9 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 Raine Rainn
England and Wales 63542

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: Raine and Rainn.