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Rainn vs Raizy

American parents have registered 2,671 Raizys since 1880, against 590 Rainns. Raizy is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rainn 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

Raizy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Rainn had 78 and Raizy had 102.

Side by side

  Rainn Raizy
Total US births 5902,671
Most in one year 78124
Babies in 2025 46124
Estimated living today 5902,600
Median age today 412
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 3,911th girls1,666th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th1,666th
First recorded 20061957
Girls / boys 304 / 2862,671 / 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 Raizys alive today are over 12; half the Rainns are over 4. That is 8 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 Rainn Raizy
England and Wales 4230

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: Rainn and Raizy.