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Raina

#916 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Rayna

Raina has been given to 12,453 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #916 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 375 recorded.

Babies named Raina, 2025

1 in 11,600

Raina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raina: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Rayna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raina means

Raina is a alternate transcription of Rayna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Raina is a alternate transcription of Rayna. Rayna has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Raina is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rayna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,453 girls were recorded with the name Raina between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 375 in 2011; its best national rank was #737 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #812 in 2020 to #916 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #920 in 2015 to #916 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Raina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,600
287 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,600
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#916
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,008 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,008 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rainas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raina was born before 2006 — so the typical Raina is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,440
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (3,256).

Is Raina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+84
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−104
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.5%
Peak was 2011 (375)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#737
2011

Spellings of Raina

Raina is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 25.0% against Raina's 0.34%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Raina is used

Across 2016–2025, Raina was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,439 girls, against 1 in 4,668 across all states with data. It was least common in Iowa (1 in 25,000).

441 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,439
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 2,857
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 2,941
  4. 4Georgia1 in 3,125
  5. 5Virginia1 in 3,226
  6. 6Michigan1 in 3,448
  7. 7Maryland1 in 3,571
  8. 8Ohio1 in 3,571

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Raina is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 28% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Raina around the world

Where Raina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,229
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2025
    #290
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2015–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2025
    #1,661
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #586
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Raina

People whose public names include Raina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Raina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Raina. Linked forms have their own page here.

RaynaReinaRajna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Raina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#916
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 104
Best rank ever
#737
2011
Peak year
2011
375 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,453
Count in 2025
287

Names similar to Raina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RaineReinaRaizyAminaAdinaElinaRainShainaDavinaAlvinaTrinaEdwinaRaisaChinaCorinaSarinaCelinaCarinaSabinaSelinaMinaLinaMelinaRainy

Names with a curve like Raina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Raina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChanaAlenaGiovannaChayaMikaBelenRyannIlianaDaniaMelinaKennaFarah

Sibling names for Raina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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