Meaning not yet researched.
Reya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 250 in 2025. Its best rank was #886 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #886 in 2024; #1,003 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Reya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,003 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #886.
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Reya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 250 girls in 2025. Peak: #886 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 305 (2024).
In 2025, 250 US girls were named Reya, making it the 1,003rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 117 places from #886 in 2024. That is 55 fewer than the 305 girls named Reya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #886, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 305. For comparison, it was #1,892 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reya in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 2,939 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,476 babies named Reya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,095 US girls were named Reya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 305. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,429 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Reya ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #527 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rey (10,222 babies since 1880), Riya (6,273 babies since 1880), Ria (4,115 babies since 1880) and Rya (1,928 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 Reya 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 15 | #527 | #606 |
| Oregon | 7 | #535 | — |
| Washington | 11 | #613 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #647 | — |
| California | 44 | #712 | #1,800 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #744 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #910 | #1,609 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #911 | — |
| New York | 17 | #941 | #1,469 |
| Florida | 17 | #950 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #962 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,185 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,186 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,244 | #1,652 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,346 | #1,903 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 250 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 2024 | 305 | #886 | — | — |
| 2023 | 278 | #947 | — | — |
| 2022 | 248 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2021 | 220 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 2020 | 175 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 2019 | 147 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 2017 | 145 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2016 | 176 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 2015 | 108 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,855 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,607 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,883 | — | — |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,205 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,972 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,905 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,455 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,112 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,103 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,640 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,398 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,032 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,331 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,964 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,840 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,561 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,029 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,897 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,843 | — | — |
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).