Rayne
Rayne is given to both girls and boys: 293 girls and 75 boys were given it in 2025 (#906 among girls’ names and #2,018 among boys’, #1,462 among all names counting both); 9,380 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,250 Americans named Rayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rayne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rayne is “a female given name.”
/ɹeɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rayne?
#906 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayne rose from #1,028 in 2015 to #906 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.15 to 0.18 per 1,000.
435 babies in 2019, the peak
Rayne peaked in 2019, when 435 babies were given it (385 girls, #736 among girls’ names). The 368 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 293 | #906 | 75 | #2,018 |
| 2024 | 281 | #942 | 64 | #2,254 |
| 2023 | 311 | #859 | 75 | #2,025 |
| 2022 | 355 | #798 | 64 | #2,260 |
| 2021 | 339 | #821 | 67 | #2,148 |
| 2020 | 354 | #768 | 50 | #2,576 |
| 2019 | 385 | #736 | 50 | #2,614 |
| 2018 | 335 | #814 | 42 | #2,876 |
| 2017 | 321 | #850 | 50 | #2,557 |
| 2016 | 291 | #943 | 42 | #2,876 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 260 | #1,028 | 28 | #3,854 |
| 2014 | 262 | #1,004 | 22 | #4,497 |
| 2013 | 271 | #935 | 35 | #3,170 |
| 2012 | 318 | #840 | 38 | #3,047 |
| 2011 | 336 | #805 | 47 | #2,618 |
| 2010 | 298 | #891 | 45 | #2,717 |
| 2009 | 309 | #891 | 43 | #2,832 |
| 2008 | 324 | #862 | 34 | #3,327 |
| 2007 | 286 | #949 | 34 | #3,290 |
| 2006 | 266 | #980 | 28 | #3,664 |
| 2005 | 212 | #1,120 | 26 | #3,689 |
| 2004 | 161 | #1,327 | 27 | #3,516 |
| 2003 | 177 | #1,207 | 21 | #4,072 |
| 2002 | 141 | #1,374 | 27 | #3,321 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,554 | 20 | #4,079 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,695 | 27 | #3,201 |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,970 | 19 | #3,945 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,768 | 24 | #3,269 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,189 | 33 | #2,485 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,221 | 13 | #4,818 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,140 | 23 | #3,073 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,446 | 18 | #3,712 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,805 | 21 | #3,219 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,193 | 14 | #4,273 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,591 | 7 | #7,108 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,479 | 14 | #4,127 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,843 | 10 | #5,084 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,815 | 9 | #5,119 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,540 | 6 | #6,758 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,302 | 12 | #3,823 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,948 | 7 | #5,617 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,257 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,375 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,294 | 7 | #5,481 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,126 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,944 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,567 | 6 | #5,893 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,033 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,817 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,923 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,857 | 7 | #4,672 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,943 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,228 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,249 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,746 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,698 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,118 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,171 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,789 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,774 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,679 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,592 | 5 | #4,485 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,185 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,556 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,952 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,078 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,772 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,696 | 5 | #4,380 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,263 | 5 | #4,421 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,023 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,089 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,513 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,043 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,926 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,939 | under 5 |
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 Rayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,380 Americans recorded as Rayne, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayne, and how old are they?
9,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,380 Americans ever recorded as Rayne. The median Rayne alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 6,396 people named Rayne (5,408 women and girls, 988 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,067 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 113 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 171 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 540 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,690 |
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).
Where are babies named Rayne born?
The states with the most babies named Rayne are Texas, Florida and California, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 37 | #1,030 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 25 | #688 | 0.9× |
| California | 23 | #1,143 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 18 | #605 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 17 | #618 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #678 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #718 | 0.9× |
| New York | 12 | #1,222 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 11 | #726 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 10 | #642 | 0.8× |
Where Rayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayne is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1947 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rayne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,008 babies since 1880, Rayne is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 368 of their 1,333 babies (28%), the 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 Rayne
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 Rayne and names like it
- Compare Rayne and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRayne peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayne since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Rayne.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayne alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.