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Rainier

#3,361 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Rayner

Rainier has been given to 920 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #3,361 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 41 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Rainier, 2025

1 in 94,700

Rainier over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Rainier over time

In 2025, Rainier went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19562025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Rainier: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rayner

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rainier means

Rainier is a form of Rayner.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rainier → Rayner. The family’s meaning is “advice, counsel, decision + army”, recorded in the naming reference for Rayner.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rayner.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 874 boys were recorded with the name Rainier between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,606 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,327 in 2020 to #3,361 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,287 in 2015 to #3,361 in 2025.

In the United States, 46 girls were recorded with the name Rainier between 2015 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2019; its best national rank was #9,601 in 2019.

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.

How common is Rainier?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,361
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rainier sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rainier. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rainiers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rainier was born before 2011 — so the typical Rainier is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
874
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (257).

Is Rainier 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
+686
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−34
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−74
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.4%
Peak was 2023 (41)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,606
1956

Spellings of Rainier

Rainier is not the most common spelling — Ranger is, with 25.7% against Rainier's 14.8%.

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 Rainier is used

Across 1910–2025, Rainier was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 181,653 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Oregon1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Rainier has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rainier around the world

Where Rainier 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.

  • France
    1944–1984
    #1,897
    in 1984
  • Canada
    2006–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1999–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rainier by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,361
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 34
Best rank ever
#2,606
1956
Peak year
2023
41 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
874
Count in 2025
35

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,601
2019
Peak year
2019
11 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rainier

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

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Sibling names for Rainier

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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