Rainey
#2,368 for girls in 2025, 76 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 82.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 90 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,182since 1914
Rainey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,368 | 76 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #2,397 | 75 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,123 | 90 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,251 | 82 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,376 | 74 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,856 | 58 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,829 | 60 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,256 | 50 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,298 | 50 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,831 | 63 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,689 | 39 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,672 | 46 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #3,302 | 34 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #2,935 | 39 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 | #2,642 | 10 |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | #2,662 | 9 |
| 1950 | — | #2,111 | 13 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #2,478 | 9 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,452 | 11 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,260 | 8 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,630 | 11 | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | #2,459 | 12 |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | #2,651 | 7 |
| 1913 | — | #1,803 | 10 | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | #1,345 | 5 | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | #1,058 | 5 | |
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Rainey! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1950, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rainey
- 21 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,368)
- 8 spots since 2020 (#2,376 → #2,368)
- 1,165 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #2,368)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2022 at #2,123 (90 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,224 girls born in 2022 were named Rainey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,148 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 22.8% of all girls named Rainey (498) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1968, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,618 (1914) | #3,618 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 26 | #3,747 (1958) | #4,293 |
| 1960s | 51 | #4,494 (1965) | #5,876 |
| 1970s | 134 | #3,558 (1974) | #4,668 |
| 1980s | 169 | #3,402 (1989) | #4,917 |
| 1990s | 346 | #2,672 (1996) | #3,388 |
| 2000s | 473 | #2,672 (2000) | #3,286 |
| 2010s | 498 | #2,744 (2017) | #3,278 |
| 2020s | 475 | #2,123 (2022) | #2,310 |
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.
Rainey in 1914
Top girls' names in 1914
Top boys' names in 1914
More about 1914
girls
761,581 girls got a published name in 1914; 1 in 152,316 of them was named Rainey, which outranked 14.0% of the 4,206 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 588 names at #3,618; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 93,537 of them was named Rainey, which outranked 29.5% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,457Yancey8
- #2,457Yates8
- #2,457Zolton8
- #2,651Rainey7
- #2,651Ad7
- #2,651Adair7
- #2,651Adalbert7
- #2,915Abbot6
- #2,915Abelardo6
- #2,915Abundio6
Tied with 263 names at #2,651; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.