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Rainy vs Raizy

American parents have registered 2,671 Raizys since 1880, against 1,035 Rainys. Raizy is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rainy 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 65 years in which either name was published, Raizy for 50 years and Rainy for 15 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Rainy Raizy
Total US births 1,0352,671
Most in one year 31124
Babies in 2025 20124
Estimated living today 1,0002,600
Median age today 2212
Peak year 20142025
Best rank 4,544th girls1,666th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th1,666th
First recorded 19631957
Girls / boys 1,035 / 02,671 / 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 Rainys alive today are over 22; half the Raizys are over 12. That is 10 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: Rainy and Raizy.