Raine
Masculine
Raine is given to both — 605 boys and 3,255 girls since 1880. See Raine as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Raine sits between the English weather word, the French reine meaning a queen, and a Germanic element ragin that means counsel — three different words, one spelling.
How old is the name Raine?
Raine first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Raine alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 600 people named Raine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Raine most popular?
Raine peaked in 2005, reaching #3172 nationally. Today it ranks #3848, 676 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Raine
Ours, offered as ours. The most interesting of the three candidates is the Germanic one: ragin meant counsel in the specific sense of the judgment a leader takes, and it is the same element in the Norse ragnarök, which is the doom or fate of the gods rather than their twilight — the twilight is a later misreading. Whether any American family reaching for Raine had that in mind is not recorded, and it is the deepest thing under the spelling.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No single source is established. Germanic ragin, counsel, opens Rainer, Reynold and Raymond and is the oldest candidate. French reine, a queen, is a separate word. The English weather noun is a third. The modern name may draw on any of them.
Pronouncing Raine
RAYN
One syllable. Raine, Rayne and Rain are said identically.
Nicknames for Raine
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
- 1981
- Most boys named
- 200532 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3172reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- +16.7%28 in 2025, from 24
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.
Raine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Reine in French — related form
- Rayne in English — spelling variant
- Rainer in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Raines among us
people named Raine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was named Raine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Raine
- #3848
- Raine on the 2025 chart
- #825
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Raine went to 28 boys in 2025, but Rayne is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 103, which makes it the 825th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,023 places above the chart.
- Rayne75
- Raine28
About 1 boy in 16,583 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,003 for Raine 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 Moritz test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Moritz climbed just as high around 1946, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Moritz's path sketches the road Raine is walking now.
Raine sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Raine is headed
Raine should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Raine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Raine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Five letters and one syllable, easy to write and impossible to mispronounce.
- Ray is a plain, permanent short form.
- It works for a boy or a girl, which is useful before a birth.
- Rain, Rayne and Raine are all in use and none is dominant.
- The weather word is what most English speakers will hear.
- There is no documented meaning for the spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Raines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Raine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Raine?
- Raine is one of 2 recorded spellings. Rayne is the more common one — 75 births in 2025 against 28 for Raine.
- How popular is the name Raine in 2025?
- Raine ranks #3848 among US boy names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Raine?
- About 1 in every 61,003 US boys born in 2025 was named Raine — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Raine with classmates?
- Raine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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