Rainbow
#6,766 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rainbow has been given to 606 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #6,766 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Rainbow, 2025
1 in 195,000
Rainbow over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rainbow?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,766
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rainbow sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rainbow. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rainbows were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rainbow was born before 2001 — so the typical Rainbow is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 25.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 606
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (152).
Is Rainbow 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
- +2,660
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,317
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,069
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.31×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 60.7%
- Peak was 1980 (28)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.1% average annual change
Where Rainbow is used
Across 1910–2025, Rainbow was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 444,799 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Rainbow has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rainbow around the world
Where Rainbow 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 & Wales1999–2025#4,867in 2025
- Canada2014–2019#2,941in 2019
- South Australia1975–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rainbow by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rainbow
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rainbow
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.