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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#1,178 · 1 in 6,864
- Florida#1,252 · 1 in 8,671
- Ohio#1,282 · 1 in 8,678
- Illinois#1,607 · 1 in 11,525
- California#1,816 · 1 in 15,671
Best ever in a state: #212 in Hawaii, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #1,178 | 7 | 1 in 6,864 |
| Florida | #1,252 | 10 | 1 in 8,671 |
| Ohio | #1,282 | 6 | 1 in 8,678 |
| Illinois | #1,607 | 5 | 1 in 11,525 |
| California | #1,816 | 13 | 1 in 15,671 |
| Texas | #2,032 | 10 | 1 in 16,729 |
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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
- 143 spots since 2024 (#1,378 → #1,235)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#1,299 → #1,235)
- 825 spots since 2015 (#2,060 → #1,235)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2023 at #1,212 (196 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 31.5% of all girls named Rain (1,140) were born in this decade
- 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.
Rain in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 18,459 of them was named Rain, which outranked 89.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,033Terra97
- #2,033Viktoria97
- #2,033Yurani97
- #2,054Rain96
- #2,054Aeris96
- #2,054Alyna96
- #2,054Brigitte96
- #2,068Adalyne95
- #2,068Analy95
- #2,068Ashlee95
Tied with 13 names at #2,054; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 59,304 of them was named Rain, which outranked 75.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,358Wilfred33
- #3,358Wynston33
- #3,358Ziyon33
- #3,441Rain32
- #3,441Abdulmalik32
- #3,441Adael32
- #3,441Adhrit32
- #3,524Aaren31
- #3,524Aarin31
- #3,524Aiven31
Tied with 82 names at #3,441; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.