Meaning not yet researched.
Araya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 235 in 2025. Its best rank was #899 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #899 in 2022; #1,052 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Araya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,052 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #899.
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Araya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 235 girls in 2025. Peak: #899 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 310 (2022).
In 2025, 235 US girls were named Araya, making it the 1,052nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 25 places from #1,077 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 230 girls named Araya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #899, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 310. For comparison, it was #1,362 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Araya in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 4,198 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,519 babies named Araya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,177 US girls were named Araya; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 310. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,839 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Araya ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #316 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ara (4,866 babies since 1880) and Arayah (1,590 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Araiya, Araiyah and Arrayah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Araiya (366), Araiyah (218), Arrayah (195), Araeya (150), Arraya (121), Araiah (108), Arayia (65), Arayiah (43), Ahraya (39), Araeyah (30), Aaraya (12), Ahrayah (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Araya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 5 | #316 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #494 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #559 | #686 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #577 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #604 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #686 | #787 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #698 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #821 | #706 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #843 | #1,244 |
| New York | 18 | #863 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #923 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #966 | #979 |
| Georgia | 9 | #996 | #1,526 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,005 | #1,367 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,048 | — |
| California | 23 | #1,112 | #1,741 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,250 | #1,033 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,723 | #2,218 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 235 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 2024 | 230 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 2023 | 258 | #991 | — | — |
| 2022 | 310 | #899 | — | — |
| 2021 | 240 | #1,051 | 5 | #12,282 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 2019 | 178 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 2018 | 189 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 2017 | 185 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 2015 | 174 | #1,362 | 5 | #12,220 |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 2013 | 120 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 2012 | 123 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 2011 | 120 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 2007 | 130 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,550 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,271 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,538 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,002 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,902 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,434 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,303 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).