Girls' name · since 2000
Araia
Araia has 118 recorded births since 2000 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,271 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,522 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 118
- born since 2000
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Araia is the #12522 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 118 recorded since 2000.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Araia has been recorded 118 times among girls since 2000, currently ranked #12522 nationally and more common than 28% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2025.
- #25,271 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,522 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 118 born since 2000
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Araia ranks #25,271 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,522 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 118 born since 2000, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,271 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,522 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 118
- born since 2000
- 2020s
- peak decade
Araia's 118 recorded births place it above 64.92% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Araia compares
118 28th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Araia's all-time total is 69% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Araia | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 118 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Araia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Araia's SSA record in two at 2018 and the more recent half accounts for 57% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 43%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2000, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Araia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Araia by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (54 births, 46% of the file).
2020s was Araia's strongest decade.
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Araia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 17
2000s
17 births
- 2010s
2010s
47 births
- 2020s
2020s
54 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 54 births (46% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Araia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2000–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Araia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.