Rainey — #2342 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Rainey

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,105 babies named Rainey between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rainey currently holds the #2342 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 90 babies received it in a single year. Rainey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 450 additional births since 1901.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rainey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 498 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Rainey shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 255 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Rainey in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rainey 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 2,105 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.