Rayne
Pronounced R EY1 N (ARPABET)
- 1 syllable
- Peaked 2019
- 137 years in use
- 5 spellings
How popular is Rayne?
Rayne is a girls' name, and first appears in 1888. It has been given to 22,206 children — the 874th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2019, when 1,472 children were given it.
Five other spellings are counted in that total — Reign, Rain, Raine and two more — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Rayne and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Reign
- Rain
- Raine
- Reine
- Rein
Characteristics
- 1 syllable
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- R EY1 N
- Stress pattern:
- 1
- Syllables:
- 1
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Rayne
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Rayne
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Rayne?
- Rayne ranks 874th among girls' names in US records, with 22,206 births since 1888. Over the past decade it accounts for 12,660.
- Is Rayne a unisex name?
- No. Rayne is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Rayne most popular?
- 2019, when 1,472 children were given the name. It has been in use for 137 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Rayne spelled?
- Reign, Rain, Raine, Reine, Rein. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.