Rayne

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Rayne: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #541, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#541highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1998	#3848
2003	#3099
2004	#2530
2005	#2438
2006	#2137
2007	#2085
2008	#2292
2009	#2148
2010	#1731
2011	#1903
2012	#2338
2013	#2176
2014	#2464
2015	#2945
2016	#1749
2017	#1184
2018	#1170
2019	#1439
2020	#1449
2021	#1128
2022	#1215
2023	#962
2024	#1021

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 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #541 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1021 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1021 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rayne appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 387 births with the name.

Rayne 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.

Rayne'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	#3795 (1996)	#962 (2023)	#1021 (2024)	25 of 29	387 (1996–2024)	36 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#2636 (2002)	#1688 (2021)	#2443 (2024)	22 of 23	140 (2002–2024)	14 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#764 (2021)	#764 (2021)	#898 (2024)	3 of 4	10 (2021–2024)	4 (2021)

Rayne 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 Rayne in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	3 of 10	3
2000s	62	7 of 10	9
2010s	167	10 of 10	17
2020sbusiest	148	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 30 births a year.

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

Rayne 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #541 in Scotland in 2024.

Rayne'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	#1021	34	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#962	36	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1215	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1439	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1170	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2556	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2338	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1903	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #541, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, 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.

Rayn · #1596, 21y
Rayna · #281, 30y
Raysa · #2178, 10y
Rayssa · #3148, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Andie · #541, 30y
Giovanna · #541, 29y
Marlowe · #541, 23y
Muntaha · #539, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Andie · #541, 30y
Cristiano · #541, 27y
Deniz · #541, 30y
Giovanna · #541, 29y

Rayne was ranked #541 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Rayne 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 Rayne without appearing here.

Rayne moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1749 and #5785.
Denise Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1749 and #4763.
Tracy Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2496 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1749 and #4763.
Shea Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2148 and #2148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #4688.

Moved ahead of Rayne

Aksel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3039 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2954 and #2403.
Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1903 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2338 and #1893.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1170 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1439 and #1063.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1688 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2165 and #2018.

Moved the opposite way to Rayne

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Rayne

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayne went from #3795 to #1021 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #541 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rayne

Rayne at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rayne across 3 official records

Rayne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Rayne across 3 official records

Rayne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rayne appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rayne

Rayne and the names beside it

Rayne moved ahead of

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