Rainah
Rainah was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,323 among girls’ names; 406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rainah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rainah?
#9,323 among girls’ names, 2025
Rainah fell from #8,337 in 2015 to #9,323 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.8 per million.
23 babies in 2019, the peak
Rainah peaked in 2019, when 23 girls were given it, #5,573 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,323 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,883 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,966 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,991 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,897 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,864 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,573 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,500 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,990 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,624 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,337 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,390 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,955 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,580 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,705 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,334 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,752 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,663 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,751 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,451 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,230 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,469 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,897 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,060 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,801 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,006 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,123 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,889 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,768 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,665 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,153 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,431 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rainah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rainah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rainah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rainah, and how old are they?
An estimated 402 Americans named Rainah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 320 people named Rainah (315 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Rainah?
Rainah is a less common spelling of Reyna: SSA has recorded 406 Rainah and 18,679 Reyna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,587 babies since 1880, Rainah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,438 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Rainah
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 Rainah and names like it
- Compare Rainah and ReynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRainah peaked in 2019.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Rainah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rainah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.