Arayah
Arayah was given to 96 girls in 2025, #1,991 among girls’ names; 1,590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Arayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arayah?
#1,991 among girls’ names, 2025
Arayah fell from #1,909 in 2015 to #1,991 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 59.4 to 59.7 per million.
106 babies in 2015, the peak
Arayah peaked in 2015, when 106 girls were given it, #1,909 among girls’ names. The 96 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96 | #1,991 | 59.7 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,956 | 62.3 |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,878 | 66.1 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,942 | 62.2 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,885 | 64.0 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,052 | 55.7 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,972 | 58.4 |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,087 | 54.1 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,360 | 44.6 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,568 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 106 | #1,909 | 59.4 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,891 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,729 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,868 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,669 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,752 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,126 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,017 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,141 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,225 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,819 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,248 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,826 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,556 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,422 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,588 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,842 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,916 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arayah, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,590 Americans ever recorded as Arayah. The median Arayah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 826 people named Arayah (825 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,006 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 422 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Arayah born?
The states with the most babies named Arayah are Florida, California and North Carolina, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,254 | 0.8× |
| California | 6 | #2,807 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,292 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #682 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,382 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,472 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,055 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,195 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arayah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 70,972 babies since 1880, Arayah is the seventh most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 4,169 babies (2.3%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arayah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arayah and names like it
- Compare Arayah and AryaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArayah peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Arayah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arayah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.