Rainy
Rainy was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,063 among girls’ names; 1,035 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Rainy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 12 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rainy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rainy?
#6,063 among girls’ names, 2025
Rainy fell from #4,827 in 2015 to #6,063 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 12.4 per million.
31 babies in 2014, the peak
Rainy peaked in 2014, when 31 girls were given it, #4,628 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,063 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,867 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,509 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,763 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,119 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,613 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,628 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,420 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,787 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,757 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,827 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,628 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,963 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,385 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,887 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,929 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,058 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,020 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,497 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,192 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,075 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,704 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,501 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,357 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,232 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,149 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,759 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,108 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,737 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,464 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,622 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,648 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,760 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,414 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,945 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,497 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,212 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,191 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,221 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,287 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,337 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,642 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,887 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,011 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,894 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,465 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,831 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,615 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,584 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,288 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,777 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,647 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,501 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,357 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,061 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,213 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,355 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,883 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,569 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,337 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,371 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rainy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rainy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rainy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rainy, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,035 Americans ever recorded as Rainy. The median Rainy alive today is 23 years old; half are between 12 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,011 people named Rainy (929 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 901 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 211 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 366 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 292 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 49,604 babies since 1880, Rainy is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 1,353 babies (1.5%), again the eighth 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 Rainy
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 Rainy and names like it
- Compare Rainy and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRainy peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rainy since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Rainy.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rainy alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.