Raney
Raney was last recorded in 2023, when 9 babies were given it; 413 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,977, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1979, the peak
Raney peaked in 1979, when 17 babies were given it (10 girls, #6,562 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | #10,977 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,158 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,236 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,517 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,523 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,323 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,501 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,279 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,413 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,424 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #16,654 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,969 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,312 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,490 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,700 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,216 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,532 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,002 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,082 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,411 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,462 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,932 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,408 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,538 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,491 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,500 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,878 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,891 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,976 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,538 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,942 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,237 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,562 | 7 | #5,235 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,778 | 6 | #5,600 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,889 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,177 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,237 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,256 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,958 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,804 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 8 | #3,187 | |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,351 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,518 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,582 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,268 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,245 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,311 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,125 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,828 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,910 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,449 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Raney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 413 Americans recorded as Raney, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raney, and how old are they?
An estimated 376 Americans named Raney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 518 people named Raney (362 women and girls, 156 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 369 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% 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.
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 Raney?
Raney is a less common spelling of Rani: SSA has recorded 413 Raney and 2,126 Rani since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,717 babies since 1880, Raney is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 769 babies recorded by SSA was a Raney (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Raney
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 Raney and names like it
- Compare Raney and RaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRaney peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Raney.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raney alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.