Rainey

Where Rainey comes from

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Raighne (“descendant of Raighne”), a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Rognvaldr.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rainey
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,618 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    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. 2022
    Peak, #2,123
    90 babies named Rainey — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

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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.