Rain

#1,235 for girls in 2025, 182 births · #1,743 for boys in 2025, 93 births
Given to girls 75.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
2023 · 196 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,618
since 1956

Rain over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,235182#1,74393
2024#1,378164#1,661101
2023#1,212196#2,14767
2022#1,395164#1,83987
2021#1,432150#2,30060
2020#1,299170#2,36656
2019#1,495146#3,25935
2018#1,568138#2,89341
2017#2,12990#2,67246
2016#2,05496#3,44132
2015#2,06095#3,29934
2014#1,940103#3,15435
2013#1,557139#4,31322
2012#1,719120#3,00238
2011#1,840109#3,23534
2010#1,928104#3,63329
2009#1,876112#3,22335
2008#1,913110#3,16536
2007#1,713127#3,02538
2006#1,961102#4,00124
2005#2,12287#6,22612
2004#2,30975#6,13812
2003#1,552124#4,61617
2002#1,89793#3,67023
2001#2,06481#4,89015
2000#2,54559#3,76421
1999#2,64053#3,98618
1998#2,46156#3,84918
1997#2,82043#3,26122
1996#2,67246#3,29321
1995#2,68745#4,79112
1994#3,30234#5,45210
1993#4,99819#6,8167
1992#6,31414#6,6707
1991#6,58813#8,2365
1990#6,86712#4,40712
1989#9,6817
1988#7,2705
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1985#9,3076
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1983#10,2755
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1981#9,1106
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1979#4,62615
1978#5,95810
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1976#8,1566
1975#4,14115
1974#8,7755
1973#5,5809
1972#3,40418
1971#3,78916#3,6588
1970#4,76111
1969#5,9747
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First appearance
1956

The first year at least five girls were named Rain! It came in at #5,952, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 143 spots since 2024 (#1,378#1,235)
  • 64 spots since 2020 (#1,299#1,235)
  • 825 spots since 2015 (#2,060#1,235)
Rise & fade · girls
67 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1956
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,212 (196 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,187
  • Highest: 1 in 8,187 girls born in 2023 were named Rain (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 8,831 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 31.5% of all girls named Rain (1,140) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1989
  • Mostly boys until 1988, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#5,952 (1956)#5,952
1960s13#5,860 (1962)#5,917
1970s105#3,404 (1972)#5,466
1980s24#9,110 (1981)#9,593
1990s335#2,461 (1998)#4,135
2000s970#1,552 (2003)#1,995
2010s1,140#1,495 (2019)#1,829
2020s1,026#1,212 (2023)#1,325

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Rain in 2016

girls
#2,054
96 births · 1 in 18,459 girls
boys
#3,441
32 births · 1 in 59,304 boys

Top girls' names in 2016

  1. #1Emma19,550
  2. #2Olivia19,414
  3. #3Ava16,354
  4. #4Sophia16,185
  5. #5Isabella14,863
  6. #6Mia14,464
  7. #7Charlotte13,118
  8. #8Abigail11,796
  9. #9Emily11,006
  10. #10Amelia10,809
  11. #2,054Rain96

Top boys' names in 2016

  1. #1Noah19,188
  2. #2Liam18,277
  3. #3William15,810
  4. #4Mason15,287
  5. #5James14,920
  6. #6Benjamin14,686
  7. #7Jacob14,559
  8. #8Michael14,145
  9. #9Elijah13,982
  10. #10Ethan13,855
  11. #3,441Rain32
More about 2016

girls

1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 18,459 of them was named Rain, which outranked 89.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rain
  1. #2,033Terra97
  2. #2,033Viktoria97
  3. #2,033Yurani97
  4. #2,054Rain96
  5. #2,054Aeris96
  6. #2,054Alyna96
  7. #2,054Brigitte96
  8. #2,068Adalyne95
  9. #2,068Analy95
  10. #2,068Ashlee95

Tied with 13 names at #2,054; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,389Kehlani#3,254#865
  2. 612Royalty#1,146#534
  3. 481Saoirse#1,448#967
  4. 396Ophelia#978#582
  5. 364Aitana#915#551
Fallers
  1. 542Caitlin#610#1,152
  2. 451Caitlyn#598#1,049
  3. 397Katelynn#652#1,049
  4. 382Kaitlynn#989#1,371
  5. 340Neriah#946#1,286

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 59,304 of them was named Rain, which outranked 75.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rain
  1. #3,358Wilfred33
  2. #3,358Wynston33
  3. #3,358Ziyon33
  4. #3,441Rain32
  5. #3,441Abdulmalik32
  6. #3,441Adael32
  7. #3,441Adhrit32
  8. #3,524Aaren31
  9. #3,524Aarin31
  10. #3,524Aiven31

Tied with 82 names at #3,441; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,327Kylo#3,231#904
  2. 355Creed#1,340#985
  3. 349Benicio#1,327#978
  4. 303Adonis#698#395
  5. 291Fox#1,035#744
Fallers
  1. 477Jonael#922#1,399
  2. 238Aaden#784#1,022
  3. 233Triston#950#1,183
  4. 223Freddy#993#1,216
  5. 207Chace#934#1,141

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2016