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Raigan vs Raine

American parents have registered 3,860 Raines since 1880, against 938 Raigans. Raine is still ahead, with 164 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raigan against Raine, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raigan 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

Raine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Raigan had 32 and Raine had 59.

Side by side

  Raigan Raine
Total US births 9383,860
Most in one year 46193
Babies in 2025 5164
Estimated living today 9303,800
Median age today 1613
Peak year 20072022
Best rank 3,531st girls1,395th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,548th
First recorded 19901954
Girls / boys 938 / 03,255 / 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 Raigans alive today are over 16; half the Raines are over 13. That is 3 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 Raigan Raine
England and Wales 21635
Scotland 327

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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Related comparisons

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