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Rainey vs Rainy

American parents have registered 2,632 Raineys since 1880, against 1,035 Rainys. Rainey is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rainey against Rainy, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rainey 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 103 years in which either name was published, Rainey for 101 years and Rainy for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Rainey Rainy
Total US births 2,6321,035
Most in one year 9031
Babies in 2025 7620
Estimated living today 2,3001,000
Median age today 1922
Peak year 20222014
Best rank 2,123rd girls4,544th girls
Rank in 2025 2,368th5,917th
First recorded 19011963
Girls / boys 2,182 / 4501,035 / 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 Raineys are over 19. That is 3 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: Rainey and Rainy.