Railynn vs Raina
American parents have registered 12,453 Rainas since 1880, against 1,008 Railynns. Raina is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Railynn Raina
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
Raina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2022, when Railynn had 71 and Raina had 290.
Side by side
| Railynn | Raina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,008 | 12,453 |
| Most in one year | 80 | 375 |
| Babies in 2025 | 49 | 287 |
| Estimated living today | 1,000 | 12,000 |
| Median age today | 8 | 19 |
| Peak year | 2018 | 2011 |
| Best rank | 2,275th girls | 737th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,211th | 914th |
| First recorded | 2001 | 1946 |
| Girls / boys | 1,008 / 0 | 12,453 / 0 |
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 Rainas alive today are over 19; half the Railynns are over 8. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Railynn Florida (6.0×), Georgia (5.5×), Texas (4.3×)
- Raina Florida (1.9×), Oregon (1.9×), Washington (1.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Railynn and Raina.