Raaya
Feminine
Raaya entered the US charts in 2009 and is at its record high, #3389 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Raaya?
Raaya first appears in US birth records in 2009 — 16 years ago. Raaya is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Raayas are still in diapers. About 200 people named Raaya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Raaya most popular?
Raaya peaked in 2025, reaching #3389 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2009
- Most girls named
- 202545 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3389reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%45 in 2025, from 40
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Raaya in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New Jersey.
Raayas among us
people named Raaya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Raaya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Raaya
- #3389
- Raaya on the 2025 chart
- #288
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Raaya went to 45 girls in 2025, but Raya, Rayah and Raiya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 1,091, which makes it the 288th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,101 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 1,473 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,717 for Raaya itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Janica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raaya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janica climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janica's path sketches the road Raaya is walking now.
Raaya sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Raaya is headed
Raaya is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 164% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Raaya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Raaya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
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Frequently asked
- How many Raayas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Raaya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Raaya?
- Raaya is one of 6 recorded spellings. Raya is the more common one — 831 births in 2025 against 45 for Raaya.
- How popular is the name Raaya in 2025?
- Raaya ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Raaya?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Raaya — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Raaya with classmates?
- Raaya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Raaya
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