Rain

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rain: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rain: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #1,407, and it stood at #1,491 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1407highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1998	#3848
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#2970
2006	#3116
2008	#2721
2009	#4564
2011	#4049
2012	#5876
2013	#4739
2014	#4684
2015	#4103
2016	#4096
2017	#2706
2018	#2499
2019	#1940
2020	#1939
2021	#2499
2022	#1685
2023	#1959
2024	#1491

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 22 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #1407 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2007–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1491 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rain appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 174 births with the name.

Rain across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rain's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#1491 (2024)	#1491 (2024)	22 of 29	174 (1996–2024)	21 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#4333 (2007)	#1407 (2023)	#2088 (2024)	14 of 18	97 (2007–2024)	18 (2023)

Rain by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rain in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000s	30	6 of 10	5
2010s	59	9 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	76	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rain appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1407 in England and Wales in 2023.

Rain's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1491	21	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1407	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1879	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,407, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Raife · #477, 25y
Raihan · #543, 29y
Raina · #209, 26y
Rainbow · #2163, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Iago · #1407, 21y
Pip · #1407, 24y
Betsi · #1406, 20y
Duha · #1406, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Pip · #1407, 24y
Sundus · #1406, 28y
Hazal · #1405, 29y
Constantine · #1404, 27y

Rain and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rain without appearing here.

Rain moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3451 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1407 and #4991.
Debra Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4103 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Rain

Audrey Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2350 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #1319.
Aria Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2350 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #2165.
Ida Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2350 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #2165.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4684 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #2705.

Moved the opposite way to Rain

Finley Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rain went from #3848 to #1491 while Finley went from #1392 to #3318.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Rain went from #3848 to #1959 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rain went from #2970 to #1491 while Hayden went from #3970 to #5891.
Aaron Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rain went from #4333 to #2088 while Aaron went from #49 to #154.

Moved the same way as Rain

Ezra Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rain went from #3848 to #1491 and Ezra from #3848 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rain went from #4373 to #1491 and Frida from #2727 to #811.
Harper Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rain went from #4373 to #1491 and Harper from #4373 to #22.
Meabh Compare
Between 2003 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rain went from #4373 to #1491 and Meabh from #4373 to #952.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1407 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rain

Rain at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rain across 2 official records

Rain by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rain appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Rain and the names beside it

Rain moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rain

Moved the opposite way to Rain

Moved the same way as Rain

Rain at a glance

Rain across 2 official records

Rain by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rain appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Rain and the names beside it

Rain moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rain

Moved the opposite way to Rain

Moved the same way as Rain