Rainy
- #5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 28 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,035since 1963
Rainy over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Rainy has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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First appearance
1963
The first year at least five girls were named Rainy! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rainy is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Rainy in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 725 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #5,917)
- 430 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #5,917)
- 1,192 spots since 2015 (#4,725 → #5,917)
Rise & fade · girls
35 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1998 at #4,023 (28 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 19 yrs later
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 55,946
- Highest: 1 in 55,946 girls born in 2019 were named Rainy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,023 in 1998, was only 1 in 63,105 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 23.6% of all girls named Rainy (244) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 26 | #5,817 (1965) | #6,740 |
| 1970s | 111 | #4,154 (1976) | #5,380 |
| 1980s | 112 | #4,327 (1980) | #6,507 |
| 1990s | 179 | #4,023 (1998) | #5,839 |
| 2000s | 244 | #4,079 (2000) | #5,433 |
| 2010s | 239 | #4,544 (2014) | #5,765 |
| 2020s | 124 | #5,390 (2023) | #5,838 |
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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