Raya
#369 for girls in 2025, 831 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 867 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,003since 1958
Raya over time
Rank among girls' names. Raya has never cracked the top 300 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #369 | 831 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #364 | 861 | — | |
| 2023 | #353 | 867 | — | |
| 2022 | #400 | 784 | — | |
| 2021 | #495 | 636 | — | |
| 2020 | #932 | 277 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,061 | 239 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,130 | 216 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,036 | 249 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,088 | 237 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,209 | 206 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,235 | 197 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,203 | 199 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,288 | 185 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,250 | 191 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,379 | 168 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,469 | 158 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,508 | 154 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,726 | 126 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,682 | 125 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,803 | 108 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,909 | 98 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,786 | 105 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,554 | 61 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,545 | 59 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,610 | 54 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,889 | 45 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,372 | 33 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,920 | 40 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,443 | 31 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
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| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 | — | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
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| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Raya! It came in at #6,103, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1963, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Raya is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Hampshire#163 · 1 in 529
- Hawaii#179 · 1 in 482
- New Mexico#270 · 1 in 834
- Maryland#312 · 1 in 1,229
- Georgia#333 · 1 in 1,372
Best ever in a state: #65 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | #163 | 7 | 1 in 529 |
| Hawaii | #179 | 5 | 1 in 482 |
| New Mexico | #270 | 6 | 1 in 834 |
| Maryland | #312 | 18 | 1 in 1,229 |
| Georgia | #333 | 33 | 1 in 1,372 |
| Michigan | #339 | 27 | 1 in 1,420 |
| Wisconsin | #360 | 15 | 1 in 1,432 |
| Minnesota | #372 | 15 | 1 in 1,485 |
| Alabama | #385 | 13 | 1 in 1,467 |
| Ohio | #403 | 28 | 1 in 1,736 |
| Illinois | #422 | 26 | 1 in 1,862 |
| Massachusetts | #425 | 13 | 1 in 1,912 |
| Arkansas | #431 | 7 | 1 in 1,554 |
| Kansas | #432 | 7 | 1 in 1,654 |
| Arizona | #436 | 15 | 1 in 1,849 |
| New York | #451 | 40 | 1 in 2,031 |
| California | #460 | 77 | 1 in 2,267 |
| Colorado | #473 | 11 | 1 in 2,012 |
| Connecticut | #477 | 6 | 1 in 2,003 |
| Missouri | #478 | 12 | 1 in 2,061 |
| Washington | #489 | 14 | 1 in 2,108 |
| Nevada | #512 | 5 | 1 in 1,950 |
| Mississippi | #543 | 5 | 1 in 1,962 |
| Texas | #547 | 59 | 1 in 2,635 |
| Utah | #560 | 7 | 1 in 2,418 |
| Iowa | #579 | 5 | 1 in 2,338 |
| Virginia | #599 | 13 | 1 in 2,660 |
| Pennsylvania | #603 | 17 | 1 in 2,870 |
| South Carolina | #609 | 7 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Florida | #612 | 28 | 1 in 2,986 |
| Oklahoma | #617 | 6 | 1 in 2,479 |
| Tennessee | #633 | 11 | 1 in 2,838 |
| Kentucky | #639 | 6 | 1 in 2,837 |
| Oregon | #645 | 5 | 1 in 2,748 |
| North Carolina | #683 | 14 | 1 in 3,220 |
| Louisiana | #738 | 6 | 1 in 3,101 |
| New Jersey | #849 | 8 | 1 in 4,553 |
| Indiana | #943 | 6 | 1 in 4,731 |
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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 Raya
- 5 spots since 2024 (#364 → #369)
- 563 spots since 2020 (#932 → #369)
- 840 spots since 2015 (#1,209 → #369)
- Biggest jump: 437 spots in 2021 (#932 → #495)
- Biggest drop: 11 spots in 2024 (#353 → #364)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2023 at #353 (867 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,851 girls born in 2023 were named Raya (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,934 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 53.2% of all girls named Raya (4,256) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,103 (1958) | #6,103 |
| 1960s | 16 | #6,009 (1964) | #6,761 |
| 1970s | 64 | #4,523 (1972) | #6,398 |
| 1980s | 138 | #3,483 (1988) | #5,830 |
| 1990s | 385 | #2,533 (1993) | #3,147 |
| 2000s | 1,052 | #1,469 (2009) | #1,958 |
| 2010s | 2,087 | #1,036 (2017) | #1,188 |
| 2020s | 4,256 | #353 (2023) | #486 |
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.
Raya in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,580 of them was named Raya, which outranked 97.2% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.