Raymone vs Rayne

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Raymone Rayne

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 75 years in which either name was published, Rayne for 70 years and Raymone for 5 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1947–1972 Rayne ahead
• 1973 Raymone ahead
• 1974–1976 Rayne ahead
• 1977–1978 Raymone ahead
• 1979 Rayne ahead
• 1980 Raymone ahead
• 1981–1983 Rayne ahead
• 1984 Raymone ahead
• 1985–2025 Rayne ahead

Side by side

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 Raymones alive today are over 32; half the Raynes are over 12. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

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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