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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Montana#212 · 1 in 598
- Oregon#670 · 1 in 3,046
- Indiana#681 · 1 in 3,403
- Washington#698 · 1 in 3,483
- Arizona#780 · 1 in 3,863
Best ever in a state: #195 in Montana, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #212 | 5 | 1 in 598 |
| Oregon | #670 | 5 | 1 in 3,046 |
| Indiana | #681 | 9 | 1 in 3,403 |
| Washington | #698 | 9 | 1 in 3,483 |
| Arizona | #780 | 8 | 1 in 3,863 |
| Alabama | #803 | 5 | 1 in 3,935 |
| Wisconsin | #848 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| Ohio | #969 | 9 | 1 in 5,864 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,021 | 8 | 1 in 6,599 |
| North Carolina | #1,227 | 6 | 1 in 7,567 |
| Florida | #1,355 | 9 | 1 in 9,552 |
| Georgia | #1,495 | 5 | 1 in 9,739 |
| California | #1,732 | 14 | 1 in 14,667 |
| Texas | #2,200 | 9 | 1 in 18,853 |
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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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 10,259 of them was named Araya, which outranked 92.9% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 383,349 of them was named Araya, which outranked 14.0% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,973 names at #12,086; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.