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Raini vs Raizy

American parents have registered 2,671 Raizys since 1880, against 580 Rainis. Raizy is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raini against Raizy, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raini Raizy

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 58 years in which either name was published, Raizy for 56 years and Raini for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Raini Raizy
Total US births 5802,671
Most in one year 28124
Babies in 2025 11124
Estimated living today 5702,600
Median age today 2512
Peak year 19972025
Best rank 4,508th girls1,666th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th1,666th
First recorded 19701957
Girls / boys 527 / 532,671 / 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 Rainis alive today are over 25; half the Raizys are over 12. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raini and Raizy.