Raina
Raina was given to 287 girls in 2025, #916 among girls’ names; 12,453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Raina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raina is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raina?
#916 among girls’ names, 2025
Raina rose from #920 in 2015 to #916 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.17 to 0.18 per 1,000.
375 babies in 2011, the peak
Raina peaked in 2011, when 375 girls were given it, #737 among girls’ names. The 287 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 287 | #916 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 258 | #1,000 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 289 | #920 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 290 | #934 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 306 | #888 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 335 | #812 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 349 | #795 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 335 | #813 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 357 | #774 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 345 | #832 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 299 | #920 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 279 | #961 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 288 | #894 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 319 | #838 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 375 | #737 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 310 | #863 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 335 | #837 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 298 | #921 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 288 | #941 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 286 | #925 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 316 | #819 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 318 | #798 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 306 | #808 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 284 | #822 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 273 | #840 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 221 | #960 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 232 | #910 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 201 | #996 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 183 | #1,047 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 159 | #1,146 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 166 | #1,075 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 171 | #1,063 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,168 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,465 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,600 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 123 | #1,318 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 116 | #1,333 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 114 | #1,282 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 100 | #1,367 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 132 | #1,116 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 108 | #1,261 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 88 | #1,358 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,206 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 113 | #1,203 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 146 | #1,001 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 153 | #973 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 183 | #853 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 144 | #966 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 156 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 133 | #962 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 117 | #1,032 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 111 | #1,067 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 88 | #1,217 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 86 | #1,234 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 176 | #799 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 139 | #927 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 77 | #1,287 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,744 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,156 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,138 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,901 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,288 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,431 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,033 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,233 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,695 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,527 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,902 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,017 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,135 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,538 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raina, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,453 Americans ever recorded as Raina. The median Raina alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 10,301 people named Raina (10,280 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 163 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,580 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,990 |
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 Raina born?
The states with the most babies named Raina are New York, Florida and Texas, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 27 | #623 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 21 | #792 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,345 | 0.6× |
| California | 18 | #1,347 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 14 | #507 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 13 | #790 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 12 | #510 | 0.6× |
| Oregon | 10 | #382 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #996 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 9 | #994 | 0.8× |
Where Raina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raina is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1946 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Raina 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,017 babies since 1880, Raina is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 287 of their 1,367 babies (21%), the third most given that year.
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 Raina
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 Raina and names like it
- Compare Raina and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaina peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raina since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Raina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.