girl's name

Raina

  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Top 1000 (US)
  • Births on record 14,789

the United States

#917

2025 births

Raina is a girl's name with 2 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 287 babies in the United States, ranking #917. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Peaked in 2011, when 375 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 11,552 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1946.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Raina over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1940s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,256
'40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Raina by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1940s 13
1950s 114
1960s 281
1970s 1,333
1980s 1,177
1990s 1,589
2000s 2,925
2010s 3,256
2020s (to 2025) 1,765

How popular is Raina?

In 2025, Raina was given to 287 babies in the United States, ranking #917 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Raina is used

Northern Ireland #287 6 in 2024
Scotland #475 7 in 2024
Canada #596 49 in 2024
United States #917 287 in 2025
Ireland #1,145 3 in 2024
England & Wales #1,268 26 in 2025
France as Raïna #1,544 30 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Raina is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Raïna Raïna is Raina written with a diaeresis, used in France, where it ranks #1,544. 365

Names that peaked alongside Raina

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Raina also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Raina over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Raina in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Dutch
Reina
Japanese
Reina
Latvian
Reina
Spanish
Reina
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Rayna

Sibling names for Raina

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Raina — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Raina

How popular is the name Raina?

In 2025, Raina was given to 287 babies in the United States, ranking #917 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Raina a girl's or a boy's name?

Raina is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Raina?

Raina has 2 syllables.

When was Raina most popular?

Raina peaked in 2011, when 375 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Raina a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Raina currently ranks #287 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.