Rayah
#1,721 for girls in 2025, 118 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 118 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,443since 1992
Rayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Rayah 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 | #1,721 | 118 |
| 2024 | #1,925 | 103 |
| 2023 | #2,258 | 82 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 |
| 2021 | #2,119 | 89 |
| 2020 | #2,850 | 57 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 |
| 2018 | #2,438 | 73 |
| 2017 | #2,744 | 62 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 |
| 2014 | #3,080 | 54 |
| 2013 | #2,533 | 70 |
| 2012 | #2,734 | 64 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 |
| 2005 | #4,267 | 32 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rayah! It came in at #10,479, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1995, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Rayah is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,050 · 1 in 5,782
- North Carolina#1,232 · 1 in 7,501
- Ohio#1,263 · 1 in 8,504
Best ever in a state: #651 in Maryland, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,050 | 8 | 1 in 5,782 |
| North Carolina | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 7,501 |
| Ohio | #1,263 | 6 | 1 in 8,504 |
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See more about Rayah
- 204 spots since 2024 (#1,925 → #1,721)
- 1,129 spots since 2020 (#2,850 → #1,721)
- 1,578 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #1,721)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2025 at #1,721 (118 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,621 girls born in 2025 were named Rayah (0.01%)
- 40.1% of all girls named Rayah (579) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 79 | #6,191 (1999) | #8,899 |
| 2000s | 271 | #3,710 (2008) | #5,200 |
| 2010s | 579 | #2,438 (2018) | #2,995 |
| 2020s | 514 | #1,721 (2025) | #2,256 |
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.
Rayah in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 23,302 of them was named Rayah, which outranked 86.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,419Story74
- #2,419Yatziri74
- #2,419Zena74
- #2,438Rayah73
- #2,438Amen73
- #2,438Annalisa73
- #2,438Arina73
- #2,457Avarie72
- #2,457Avayah72
- #2,457Berenice72
Tied with 18 names at #2,438; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.