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Rin vs Rinoa

American parents have registered 560 Rinoas since 1880, against 516 Rins. But in 2025 it was Rin that was commoner, 65 babies to 26.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rin against Rinoa, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rin Rinoa

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 28 years in which either name was published, Rinoa for 19 years and Rin for 9 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Rin Rinoa
Total US births 516560
Most in one year 6543
Babies in 2025 6526
Estimated living today 510560
Median age today 59
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 3,577th girls3,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,577th4,987th
First recorded 19832000
Girls / boys 419 / 97560 / 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 Rinoas alive today are over 9; half the Rins are over 5. That is 4 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 Rin Rinoa
England and Wales 952

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: Rin and Rinoa.