Meaning not yet researched.
Rainey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 76 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,137 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,137 in 2022; #2,376 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rainey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,376 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,137.
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Rainey: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 76 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,137 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 90 (2022).
In 2025, 76 US girls were named Rainey, making it the 2,376th most common girls’ name of the year, down 17 places from #2,359 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 78 girls named Rainey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,137, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #3,583 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Rainey in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,174, reached in 1901. The most boys given the name in a single year was 13, in 1950. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,181 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rainey in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 5 babies. In all, 2,632 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 509 babies named Rainey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 705 US girls were named Rainey; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,148 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rainey ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #903 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ranee (1,393 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rainy, Rainier and Rainee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rainy (1,035), Rainier (920), Rainee (700), Raynee (489), Raenee (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rainey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 6 | #903 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #1,019 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,180 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,883 | #2,028 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,359 | 6 | #12,019 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2021 | 82 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,883 | 6 | #11,812 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,530 | 5 | #13,582 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,840 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,240 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,734 | 6 | #11,016 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,174 | 7 | #9,383 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,619 | 8 | #8,135 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,868 | 9 | #6,964 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,102 | 5 | #10,914 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,705 | 8 | #6,960 |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,007 | 6 | #8,623 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,359 | 6 | #8,553 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,346 | 5 | #9,821 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,345 | 7 | #7,218 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,977 | 5 | #9,273 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,248 | 6 | #7,042 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,949 | 5 | #7,854 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,019 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,455 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,372 | 5 | #7,046 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,245 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,477 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,808 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,024 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,031 | 5 | #6,537 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,854 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,107 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,301 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,657 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,502 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,808 | 6 | #4,844 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,440 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,192 | 6 | #4,604 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,427 | 5 | #4,868 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,805 | 7 | #3,603 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,592 | 6 | #3,871 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,671 | 5 | #4,392 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,582 | 5 | #4,478 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,935 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,332 | 7 | #3,555 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,086 | 6 | #3,963 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,548 | 5 | #4,434 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,879 | 10 | #2,776 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,486 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,921 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,281 | 9 | #2,812 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,181 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,148 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,656 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,596 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,941 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,633 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,403 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,610 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,457 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,569 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,706 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,555 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,165 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,206 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,911 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,564 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,607 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,101 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,689 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #4,097 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,442 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,742 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,766 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,618 | 12 | #2,575 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,673 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,075 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,447 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,691 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,328 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,083 | 7 | #2,851 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,913 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,502 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,174 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).