Rain

Where Rain comes from

The dictionaries list Rain as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #5,952 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2023
    Peak, #1,212
    196 babies named Rain — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Rain hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.