Rain
- #1,235 for girls in 2025, 182 births
- #1,743 for boys in 2025, 93 births
- Given to girls 75.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 196 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,618since 1956
Rain over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #1,235 | 182 | #1,743 | 93 |
| 2024 | #1,378 | 164 | #1,661 | 101 |
| 2023 | #1,212 | 196 | #2,147 | 67 |
| 2022 | #1,395 | 164 | #1,839 | 87 |
| 2021 | #1,432 | 150 | #2,300 | 60 |
| 2020 | #1,299 | 170 | #2,366 | 56 |
| 2019 | #1,495 | 146 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #1,568 | 138 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | #2,129 | 90 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 2016 | #2,054 | 96 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #2,060 | 95 | #3,299 | 34 |
| 2014 | #1,940 | 103 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #1,557 | 139 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #1,719 | 120 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #1,840 | 109 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #1,928 | 104 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #1,876 | 112 | #3,223 | 35 |
| 2008 | #1,913 | 110 | #3,165 | 36 |
| 2007 | #1,713 | 127 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #1,961 | 102 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #2,122 | 87 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #2,309 | 75 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #1,552 | 124 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #1,897 | 93 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #2,064 | 81 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #2,545 | 59 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #2,461 | 56 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #2,672 | 46 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #3,302 | 34 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | — | |
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| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1956
The first year at least five girls were named Rain! It came in at #5,952, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rain is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · girls
- South Carolina#773 · 1 in 3,658
- Colorado#789 · 1 in 3,888
- Missouri#811 · 1 in 4,050
- Minnesota#835 · 1 in 4,296
- Indiana#916 · 1 in 4,651
Best ever in a state: #212 in Hawaii, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #773 | 5 | 1 in 3,658 |
| Colorado | #789 | 6 | 1 in 3,888 |
| Missouri | #811 | 6 | 1 in 4,050 |
| Minnesota | #835 | 5 | 1 in 4,296 |
| Indiana | #916 | 6 | 1 in 4,651 |
| Pennsylvania | #927 | 9 | 1 in 5,188 |
| Tennessee | #983 | 6 | 1 in 5,346 |
| California | #1,027 | 26 | 1 in 6,220 |
| Virginia | #1,037 | 6 | 1 in 5,624 |
| Georgia | #1,213 | 7 | 1 in 6,458 |
| New York | #1,235 | 11 | 1 in 7,121 |
| Texas | #1,268 | 20 | 1 in 8,027 |
| Ohio | #1,271 | 6 | 1 in 7,878 |
| Florida | #1,436 | 9 | 1 in 9,640 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rain
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 64 spots since 2020 (#1,299 → #1,235)
Rise & fade · girls
67 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2023 at #1,212 (196 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,187
- Highest: 1 in 8,187 girls born in 2023 were named Rain (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,831 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 31.5% of all girls named Rain (1,140) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1989
- Mostly boys until 1988, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,952 (1956) | #5,952 |
| 1960s | 13 | #5,860 (1962) | #5,917 |
| 1970s | 105 | #3,404 (1972) | #5,466 |
| 1980s | 24 | #9,110 (1981) | #9,593 |
| 1990s | 335 | #2,461 (1998) | #4,135 |
| 2000s | 970 | #1,552 (2003) | #1,995 |
| 2010s | 1,140 | #1,495 (2019) | #1,829 |
| 2020s | 1,026 | #1,212 (2023) | #1,325 |
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.
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