girls:
576 births since 1971
#5140 (10th percentile)
overall:
576 births since 1971
#7163 (7th percentile)
The name Rainbow is the #7,163 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 576 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 7.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,140 (10.0% percentile) for all time with 576 births since 1971.
Rainbow first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Rainbow is available in 44 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Rainbow reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #762) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rainbow ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 69.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rainbow".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Rainbow. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Rainbow is pronounced as RAYN-boh, which has 2 syllables.
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