Rainbow — #9085 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rainbow

The Social Security Administration has registered 588 babies named Rainbow between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rainbow currently holds the #9085 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rainbow performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 151 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Rainbow shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rainbow in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rainbow in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 588 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.