Rain
Rain is given to both girls and boys: 182 girls and 93 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,239 among girls’ names and #1,751 among boys’, #1,801 among all names counting both); 4,806 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,750 Americans named Rain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rain mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rain is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rain?
#1,239 among girls’ names, 2025
Rain rose from #2,073 in 2015 to #1,239 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
275 babies in 2025, the peak
Rain peaked in 2025, when 275 babies were given it (182 girls, #1,239 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 164 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 182 | #1,239 | 93 | #1,751 |
| 2024 | 164 | #1,382 | 101 | #1,670 |
| 2023 | 196 | #1,216 | 67 | #2,169 |
| 2022 | 164 | #1,399 | 87 | #1,848 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,436 | 60 | #2,316 |
| 2020 | 170 | #1,301 | 56 | #2,387 |
| 2019 | 146 | #1,498 | 35 | #3,322 |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,575 | 41 | #2,928 |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,140 | 46 | #2,704 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,065 | 32 | #3,500 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,073 | 34 | #3,345 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,951 | 35 | #3,198 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,562 | 22 | #4,428 |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,727 | 38 | #3,045 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,851 | 34 | #3,288 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,935 | 29 | #3,691 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,887 | 35 | #3,256 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,922 | 36 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 127 | #1,720 | 38 | #3,069 |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,974 | 24 | #4,073 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,134 | 12 | #6,519 |
| 2004 | 75 | #2,319 | 12 | #6,419 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,558 | 17 | #4,759 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,908 | 23 | #3,743 |
| 2001 | 81 | #2,067 | 15 | #5,072 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,560 | 21 | #3,874 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,663 | 18 | #4,112 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,484 | 18 | #3,965 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,860 | 22 | #3,321 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,700 | 21 | #3,369 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,715 | 12 | #5,039 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,353 | 10 | #5,776 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,135 | 7 | #7,421 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,556 | 7 | #7,210 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,877 | 5 | #9,265 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,180 | 12 | #4,604 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,543 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,214 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,288 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,529 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,030 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,785 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,266 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,914 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,298 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,794 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,927 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,501 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,900 | 8 | #3,875 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,989 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,424 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,392 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,670 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,806 Americans recorded as Rain, 75% are girls and 25% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rain, and how old are they?
4,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,806 Americans ever recorded as Rain. The median Rain alive today is 13 years old; half are between 5 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,671 people named Rain (2,821 women and girls, 850 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 112 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 279 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,530 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rain born?
The states with the most babies named Rain are California, Texas and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 38 | #1,044 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 29 | #1,302 | 0.8× |
| New York | 18 | #1,294 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,522 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #995 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,322 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,402 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,150 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | #880 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rain with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,026 babies since 1880, Rain is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 275 of their 374 babies (74%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rain
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rain and names like it
- Compare Rain and RaynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRain peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rain since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rain.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rain alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.