Meaning not yet researched.
Raeya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,304 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,304 in 2021; #2,854 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raeya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,854 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,304.
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Raeya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,304 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 80 (2021).
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Raeya, making it the 2,854th most common girls’ name of the year, down 225 places from #2,629 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 67 girls named Raeya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,304, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #4,378 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raeya in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 5 babies. In all, 802 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 399 babies named Raeya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 578 US girls were named Raeya; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raeya ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,239 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ray (210,307 babies since 1880), Rae (24,420 babies since 1880), Raya (8,008 babies since 1880) and Raye (2,603 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Raeya 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,239 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,744 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,963 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,084 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,101 | — | — |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,846 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,281 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,633 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,632 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,769 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,970 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,744 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,958 | — | — |
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).