Rini

Girls' name

Diminutive of Marinus

Rini has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Rini, 2024

1 in 418,000

Rini over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rini: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Marinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rini means

Rini is a diminutive of Marinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rini is used in Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈri.ni/ for Rini.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Rini is a diminutive of Marinus. Marinus has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 girls were recorded with the name Rini between 2000 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2022; its best national rank was #7,569 in 2022.

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 Rini?

Rini had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rini 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rinis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rini was born before 2015 — so the typical Rini is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Rini 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (15)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,569
2022

Spellings of Rini

Rini is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 17.2% against Rini's <0.01%.

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.

Rini around the world

Where Rini 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
    2015–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–1979
    #627
    in 1979

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rini by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,569
2022
Peak year
2022
15 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rini

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

Sibling names for Rini

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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