Meaning not yet researched.
Raya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 831 in 2025. Its best rank was #353 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #353 in 2023; #369 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Raya in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#369 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #353.
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Raya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 831 girls in 2025. Peak: #353 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 867 (2023).
In 2025, 831 US girls were named Raya, making it the 369th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #365 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 861 girls named Raya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #353, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 867. For comparison, it was #1,211 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raya in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 5 babies. In all, 8,008 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,261 babies named Raya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,197 US girls were named Raya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 867. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,934 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raya ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #137 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aja (8,404 babies since 1880), Aya (7,987 babies since 1880), Ray (210,307 babies since 1880) and Rae (24,420 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raiyah, Raeyah and Raiah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Azerbaijani. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raiyah (139), Raeyah (80), Raiah (66), Raaha (19), Raiha (9), Rauha (7), Rayiah (7).
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 Raya 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 7 | #137 | — |
| Maine | 6 | #203 | — |
| West Virginia | 8 | #223 | — |
| Idaho | 10 | #235 | — |
| Washington | 31 | #236 | #1,258 |
| Oregon | 13 | #293 | — |
| California | 108 | #303 | #1,199 |
| Virginia | 28 | #307 | — |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #310 | — |
| Iowa | 11 | #319 | — |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #324 | #831 |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #326 | #925 |
| Maryland | 16 | #349 | — |
| Arizona | 20 | #351 | — |
| Ohio | 32 | #355 | #1,253 |
| Indiana | 20 | #355 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #357 | — |
| New Jersey | 23 | #360 | #1,325 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #367 | — |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #371 | #812 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #374 | — |
| Illinois | 28 | #377 | #968 |
| New York | 46 | #378 | #1,729 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #380 | — |
| Florida | 48 | #395 | #1,168 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #401 | — |
| Minnesota | 13 | #418 | #546 |
| Nevada | 7 | #418 | — |
| Michigan | 20 | #436 | #621 |
| Utah | 10 | #436 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #474 | — |
| Georgia | 24 | #485 | #1,038 |
| Texas | 67 | #486 | #1,525 |
| Alabama | 9 | #567 | — |
| Colorado | 10 | #575 | #857 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #577 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #598 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #613 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #846 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 831 | #369 | 5 | #13,444 |
| 2024 | 861 | #365 | — | — |
| 2023 | 867 | #353 | — | — |
| 2022 | 784 | #400 | — | — |
| 2021 | 636 | #495 | — | — |
| 2020 | 277 | #933 | — | — |
| 2019 | 239 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2018 | 216 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2017 | 249 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 2016 | 237 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 2015 | 206 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 2014 | 197 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2013 | 199 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 2012 | 185 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 2011 | 191 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2008 | 154 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 2007 | 126 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 2006 | 125 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,283 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,518 | — | — |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,230 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,478 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,948 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,886 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,119 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,022 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,230 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,461 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,789 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,996 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,731 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,318 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,468 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,228 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,726 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,368 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,574 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,590 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,802 | — | — |
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).