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Raiden vs Raine

American parents have registered 13,141 Raidens since 1880, against 3,860 Raines. Raiden is still ahead, with 757 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raiden against Raine, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raiden Raine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 64 years in which either name was published, Raine for 40 years and Raiden for 24 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Raiden Raine
Total US births 13,1413,860
Most in one year 969193
Babies in 2025 757164
Estimated living today 13,0003,800
Median age today 813
Peak year 20222022
Best rank 353rd boys1,395th girls
Rank in 2025 432nd1,548th
First recorded 19931954
Girls / boys 460 / 12,6813,255 / 605

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Raines alive today are over 13; half the Raidens are over 8. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Raiden Raine
England and Wales 501635
Scotland 1027

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raiden and Raine.