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The first name 
Rainey

Rainey is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.

When two girls called Rainey meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Rainey is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Rainey. In the SmartGenius ranking, Rainey is #2,569 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rainey.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Rainey

Rainey -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Rainey your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Rainey never ranked higher than position 1,510 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Rainey. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1901 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Rainey because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Rainey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

2022 - looking for Rainey?

As in the last century, Rainey still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 90 times in the entire U.S. So, a Rainey from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.

Rainey -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Rainey are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Rainey is registered in 12 states, among which are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado or Florida. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Rainey live in Texas, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 47,887 would turn around if you called the name Rainey across Texas.

Rainey has 6 letters 
and begins with an R

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With six letters, the name Rainey is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.

Other names with 
R, a, i, n, e and y

If you take all the letters in the name Rainey – R, a, i, n, e and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Nyarie or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rainey

If your name is Rainey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Rainey

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rainey, you can simply say:

Rocket

Apple

Igloo

Nut

Elephant

Yoyo

This is how the name Rainey is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Rainey in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Rainey

Rainey

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Rainey

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Rainey is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
A
I
N
E
Y

Have you ever waved the name Rainey

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

R
A
I
N
E
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rainey sounds like this: