Meaning not yet researched.
Arayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 96 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,878 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,878 in 2023; #1,991 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,991 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,878.
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Arayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 96 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,878 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 106 (2023).
In 2025, 96 US girls were named Arayah, making it the 1,991st most common girls’ name of the year, down 35 places from #1,956 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 101 girls named Arayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,878, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 106. For comparison, it was #1,909 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arayah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 1,590 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 707 babies named Arayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 936 US girls were named Arayah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,742 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arayah ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #682 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Araya (4,198 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arraiyah 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: Arraiyah (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 Arayah 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #682 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,055 | #1,089 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,195 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,254 | #1,128 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,292 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,382 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,473 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,807 | #2,753 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 2015 | 106 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,670 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,753 | — | — |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,142 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,824 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,253 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,562 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,429 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,596 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,849 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,921 | — | — |
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).