# Rain (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rain/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,806 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,188 / 3,618 (75% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 307, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 109 | 1,851 |
| 2012 | 120 | 1,727 |
| 2013 | 139 | 1,562 |
| 2014 | 103 | 1,951 |
| 2015 | 95 | 2,073 |
| 2016 | 96 | 2,065 |
| 2017 | 90 | 2,140 |
| 2018 | 138 | 1,575 |
| 2019 | 146 | 1,498 |
| 2020 | 170 | 1,301 |
| 2021 | 150 | 1,436 |
| 2022 | 164 | 1,399 |
| 2023 | 196 | 1,216 |
| 2024 | 164 | 1,382 |
| 2025 | 182 | 1,239 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 3,289 |
| 2012 | 38 | 3,047 |
| 2013 | 22 | 4,430 |
| 2014 | 35 | 3,200 |
| 2015 | 34 | 3,346 |
| 2016 | 32 | 3,501 |
| 2017 | 46 | 2,705 |
| 2018 | 41 | 2,929 |
| 2019 | 35 | 3,325 |
| 2020 | 56 | 2,388 |
| 2021 | 60 | 2,317 |
| 2022 | 87 | 1,848 |
| 2023 | 67 | 2,170 |
| 2024 | 101 | 1,670 |
| 2025 | 93 | 1,751 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,940 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,939 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,959 |
| 2024 | 21 | 1,491 |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,512 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Rain

- Rain Phoenix, American actress and musician
- Rain Spencer, American actress
- Rain Veideman, Estonian basketball player (born 1991)
- Rain Epler, Estonian politician (born 1977)
- Rain Sultanov, Azerbaijani jazz saxophonist
- Rain Vessenberg, Estonian footballer (born 1975)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.