Raine vs Rainy
American parents have registered 3,860 Raines since 1880, against 1,035 Rainys. Raine is still ahead, with 164 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Raine Rainy
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 68 years in which either name was published, Raine for 51 years and Rainy for 17 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1954–1961 Raine ahead
- 1965–1980 Rainy ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1981–2025 Raine ahead, apart from one short spell
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Raine | Rainy | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,860 | 1,035 |
| Most in one year | 193 | 31 |
| Babies in 2025 | 164 | 20 |
| Estimated living today | 3,800 | 1,000 |
| Median age today | 13 | 22 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 2014 |
| Best rank | 1,395th girls | 4,544th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,548th | 5,917th |
| First recorded | 1954 | 1963 |
| Girls / boys | 3,255 / 605 | 1,035 / 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 Rainys alive today are over 22; half the Raines are over 13. 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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raine and Rainy.