Meaning not yet researched.
Raiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,374 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,374 in 2023; #3,017 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,017 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,374.
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Raiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,374 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 77 (2023).
In 2025, 55 US girls were named Raiya, making it the 3,017th most common girls’ name of the year, down 225 places from #2,792 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 61 girls named Raiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,374, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #4,954 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raiya in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 6 babies. In all, 718 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 353 babies named Raiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 472 US girls were named Raiya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ray (210,307 babies since 1880), Raya (8,008 babies since 1880), Raye (2,603 babies since 1880) and Rayah (1,443 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 Raiya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,882 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,979 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,995 | — | — |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,573 | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,235 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,280 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,681 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,054 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,193 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,365 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,334 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,034 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,775 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,323 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,148 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,134 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,485 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,809 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,584 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,133 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,719 | — | — |
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).