Arayah
#1,990 for girls in 2025, 96 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 106 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,590since 1997
Arayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Arayah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,990 | 96 |
| 2024 | #1,955 | 101 |
| 2023 | #1,878 | 106 |
| 2022 | #1,942 | 102 |
| 2021 | #1,885 | 105 |
| 2020 | #2,050 | 90 |
| 2019 | #1,971 | 98 |
| 2018 | #2,084 | 92 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2015 | #1,908 | 106 |
| 2014 | #2,888 | 59 |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 |
| 2012 | #2,866 | 60 |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 |
| 2009 | #3,126 | 54 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 |
| 2006 | #3,224 | 51 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
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| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Arayah! It came in at #13,724, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1997–1998, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Arayah is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#687 · 1 in 3,857
- Indiana#1,055 · 1 in 6,340
- California#3,207 · 1 in 36,381
Best ever in a state: #617 in Oklahoma, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #687 | 5 | 1 in 3,857 |
| Indiana | #1,055 | 5 | 1 in 6,340 |
| California | #3,207 | 6 | 1 in 36,381 |
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See more about Arayah
- 35 spots since 2024 (#1,955 → #1,990)
- 60 spots since 2020 (#2,050 → #1,990)
- 82 spots since 2015 (#1,908 → #1,990)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2023 at #1,878 (106 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,138 girls born in 2023 were named Arayah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,742 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.5% of all girls named Arayah (707) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 11 | #12,688 (1999) | #13,206 |
| 2000s | 272 | #3,126 (2009) | #5,967 |
| 2010s | 707 | #1,908 (2015) | #2,676 |
| 2020s | 600 | #1,878 (2023) | #1,950 |
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.
Arayah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 34,021 of them was named Arayah, which outranked 84.5% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #3,126Arayah54
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Tied with 34 names at #3,126; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.