Raina

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Raina: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #209, and it stood at #253 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
41times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#209highest recorded position
8groupings 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	#2683
1997	#2411
1999	#3900
2000	#2167
2002	#2868
2004	#2278
2005	#2682
2006	#1983
2007	#2895
2008	#3860
2009	#2759
2010	#1901
2011	#2150
2012	#1893
2013	#1639
2014	#1966
2015	#1452
2016	#1142
2017	#1296
2018	#1035
2019	#1063
2020	#821
2021	#918
2022	#1215
2023	#1206
2024	#1406

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 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #253 among girls in Northern Ireland, #431 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1406 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 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 recorded2014–2024
Highest recorded position: #209 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2014–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1406 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Raina appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 448 births with the name.

Raina across 3 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.

Raina'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	#2683 (1996)	#821 (2020)	#1406 (2024)	26 of 29	448 (1996–2024)	44 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2014)	#209 (2023)	#253 (2024)	8 of 11	48 (2014–2024)	8 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2015)	#621 (2019)	#898 (2024)	6 of 10	22 (2015–2024)	5 (2019)

Raina 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 Raina in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	58	8 of 10	7
2010s	217	10 of 10	22
2020sbusiest	159	5 of 10	32

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 32 births a year.

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

Raina appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #209 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Raina'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	#1406	23	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1215	27	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#918	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1035	34	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1296	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1142	30	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1452	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1639	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#253	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#218	8	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #209, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Raihan · #543, 29y
Rain · #1407, 24y
Rainbow · #2163, 15y
Raine · #541, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, 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.

Nia · #209, 30y
Zayan · #208, 27y
Aj · #211, 24y
Bertie · #211, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Cadan · #209, 28y
Findlay · #209, 29y
Nia · #209, 30y
Christy · #210, 31y

Raina was ranked #209 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Raina 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 Raina without appearing here.

Raina moved ahead of

Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2759 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1901 and #5707.
Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2150 and #5785.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1893 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1639 and #4739.
Ellinor Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2759 and #5556.

Moved ahead of Raina

Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1983 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2895 and #1573.
Ida Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #2738 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2770.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1966 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1452 and #1240.
Eabha Compare
In 2021 they stood at #918 and #1069 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1215 and #1180.

Moved the opposite way to Raina

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Raina

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raina went from #2683 to #1406 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #209 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Raina

Raina at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Raina across 3 official records

Raina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Raina 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

Names published alongside Raina

Raina and the names beside it

Raina moved ahead of

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Raina at a glance

Raina across 3 official records

Raina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Raina appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Raina

Raina and the names beside it

Raina moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Raina

Moved the opposite way to Raina

Moved the same way as Raina