Araya
#1,052 for girls in 2025, 235 births · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #12,146
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 310 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,188since 1979
Araya over time
Rank among girls' names. Araya has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,052 | 235 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,077 | 230 | — | |
| 2023 | #989 | 258 | — | |
| 2022 | #899 | 310 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,051 | 240 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,256 | 181 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,291 | 178 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,233 | 189 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,274 | 185 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,371 | 171 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,362 | 174 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,479 | 151 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,725 | 120 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,698 | 123 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,722 | 120 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,942 | 103 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,810 | 119 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,913 | 110 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,689 | 130 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,743 | 119 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,803 | 108 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,044 | 89 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,368 | 70 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,263 | 72 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,096 | 79 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,016 | 82 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,731 | 49 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,007 | 27 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | — | |
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| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Araya! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Araya is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#454 · 1 in 1,880
- Ohio#850 · 1 in 5,158
- Michigan#957 · 1 in 5,881
- Pennsylvania#992 · 1 in 6,594
- North Carolina#1,362 · 1 in 8,791
Best ever in a state: #195 in Montana, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | #454 | 7 | 1 in 1,880 |
| Ohio | #850 | 10 | 1 in 5,158 |
| Michigan | #957 | 7 | 1 in 5,881 |
| Pennsylvania | #992 | 8 | 1 in 6,594 |
| North Carolina | #1,362 | 5 | 1 in 8,791 |
| California | #1,757 | 14 | 1 in 14,935 |
| New York | #2,242 | 5 | 1 in 18,454 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Araya
- 25 spots since 2024 (#1,077 → #1,052)
- 204 spots since 2020 (#1,256 → #1,052)
- 310 spots since 2015 (#1,362 → #1,052)
- Biggest jump: 152 spots in 2022 (#1,051 → #899)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2023 (#899 → #989)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2022 at #899 (310 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2022–2023
- Highest: 1 in 5,291 girls born in 2022 were named Araya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,839 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 36.2% of all girls named Araya (1,514) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 5 | #11,325 (1987) | #11,325 |
| 1990s | 232 | #2,731 (1998) | #4,860 |
| 2000s | 978 | #1,689 (2007) | #1,975 |
| 2010s | 1,514 | #1,233 (2018) | #1,510 |
| 2020s | 1,454 | #899 (2022) | #1,054 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Araya in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 14,318 of them was named Araya, which outranked 91.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,690Loretta124
- #1,690Mari124
- #1,690Raniyah124
- #1,698Araya123
- #1,698Aarna123
- #1,698Aarya123
- #1,698Agnes123
- #1,705Adamari122
- #1,705Analeigh122
- #1,705Dasha122
Tied with 6 names at #1,698; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.