Raya

Where Raya comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Raya.

  • Vowel-ended
Raya through the years
  1. 1909
    Raya Garbousova born
    Russian-American musician
  2. 1910
    Raya Dunayevskaya born
    American philosopher
  3. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2023
    Peak, #353
    867 babies named Raya, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Raya Dunayevskaya · American philosopher, 1910–1987
  • Raya Garbousova · Russian-American musician, 1909–1997
  • Raya Meddine · American actress, born 1953
  • Raya Zin Aldden · sport shooter, born 1988
  • Raya Bronstein · Israeli sports woman and sports educator, 1929–2023

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.