Rainah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAY-na
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Rainah is a girls' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Rainah mean?
Slavic: spelling of Raina; Bulgarian name; also a spelling of Rayna
Raina Petkoff is the romantic Bulgarian heroine of George Bernard Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man (1894).
Meaning borrowed from Raina. More on Wiktionary.
Is Rainah a girl's or a boy's name?
Rainah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rainah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Rainah, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.
Half of all the girls named Rainah in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,681 girls in the US were given Rainah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #216, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
Rainah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,445 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,541 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,548 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,127 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Rainah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Aaliyah Zaniyah Safa Zainab Farah Kaliyah Rahma Jaliyah Naziyah Salem Zaliyah
Other spellings of Rainah
Names related to Rainah
More Slavic names
Mila Milan Vera Mira Nadia Milana Zora Milena Damir Lev Siyana Vlad Lilyana Yuri Milah Raisa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rainah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rainah, updated 20 October 2026.