Rain
Masculine · “rain”
Rain is given to both — 1,188 boys and 3,618 girls since 1880. See Rain as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Rain is water falling, and the English word is old — regn in Old English, and cousin to the German Regen and the Norse regn, with no further origin recovered.
How old is the name Rain?
Rain first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Rain is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Rain are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rain most popular?
Rain peaked in 2024, reaching #1661 nationally. Today it ranks #1743, 82 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From regn to Rain
The story of Rain
Nature word-names rose in American naming from the 1960s and 1970s — Rain, River, Sky, Storm, Summer. Rain appears in the American registers for both sexes from that period. It is also a stage name used by a South Korean singer since 2002, which carried it further. It is in current use.
Meaning
rain
From the Old English regn, 'rain', shared across the Germanic languages. Its origin beyond Proto-Germanic is not recovered. As a name it also functions as a respelling of Rayne and Raine, from the French reine, 'queen', or the Germanic ragin, 'counsel'.
How the name formed
- regn
- rain
- Rain
Related forms: Raine · Rayne · Regen
Pronouncing Rain
RAYN
One syllable. Rain, Raine and Rayne are homophones; only the spelling differs.
Nicknames for Rain
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 2024101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1661reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −7.9%93 in 2025, from 101
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Rain in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Raine in English — spelling variant
- Rayne in English — spelling variant
- Regen in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Rains among us
people named Rain are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 18,366 born in 2025 was named Rain
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Rain
- #1743
- Rain on the 2025 chart
- #793
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Rain went to 93 boys in 2025, but Rainn and Rayn are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 135, which makes it the 793rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 950 places above the chart.
- Rain93
- Rainn26
- Rayn16
About 1 boy in 12,652 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,366 for Rain itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ioannis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rain's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ioannis climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ioannis's path sketches the road Rain is walking now.
Rain is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Rain is headed
Rain looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 34% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Rain beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rain in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete and needs no explanation anywhere.
- It belongs to a coherent family of nature names.
- One syllable, clean, and never mispronounced.
- It is an ordinary English noun and never reads as purely a name.
- Reign and rein are homophones with quite different senses.
- It is thoroughly unisex and reads as more feminine in America.
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Masculine · #1743 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Rains are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Rain are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Rain?
- Rain is the most-used spelling in US records — 93 of the 135 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Rainn and Rayn.
- How popular is the name Rain in 2025?
- Rain ranks #1743 among US boy names in 2025, with 93 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rain?
- About 1 in every 18,366 US boys born in 2025 was named Rain — 93 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rain with classmates?
- Rain will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Rain
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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