Masterpiece Generator Name Generator
How popular is the name Rain?
Births per year, rank history and how many Rains are alive today.
Rain (male) is a rare spelling of the boys' name Reign in England and Wales, ranked 1613th in 2025 and given to 16 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2023, when 18 babies were given the name, the 1407th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade.
Across all spellings of the name, the Reign you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Reigns born in England and Wales are between 3 and 8, and there are at least 1,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Reign - on average, only one in every 217 such rooms contains a Reign.
How many babies are named Rain each year?
Includes all spellings: Rain, Raine, Rayne, Reign. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Rain spelling rank?
Where does the Raine spelling rank?
Where does the Rayne spelling rank?
Where does the Reign spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Rain most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Reign, peaked in 2024, when 183 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Rain spelling itself peaked in 2023, with 18 babies.
How many people are called Rain?
At least 1,400 people named Rain in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Rain?
Most living Rains are between 3 and 8; the most common age is about 2.
Is Rain becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.