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Rayne vs Raynen

American parents have registered 9,380 Raynes since 1880, against 32 Raynens. Rayne is still ahead, with 368 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rayne against Raynen, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rayne Raynen

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

Rayne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Rayne had 352 and Raynen had 15.

Side by side

  Rayne Raynen
Total US births 9,38032
Most in one year 43515
Babies in 2025 368under 5
Estimated living today 9,30030
Median age today 1213
Peak year 20192009
Best rank 733rd girls5,800th boys
Rank in 2025 904thunranked
First recorded 19472009
Girls / boys 8,034 / 1,3460 / 32

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.

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