Raena
Raena was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,147 among girls’ names; 1,653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Raena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raena?
#4,147 among girls’ names, 2025
Raena rose from #4,950 in 2015 to #4,147 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 21.8 per million.
55 babies in 2005, the peak
Raena peaked in 2005, when 55 girls were given it, #2,955 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,147 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,267 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,025 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,270 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,991 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,987 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,138 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,859 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,338 | 27.8 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,693 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,950 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,637 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,253 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,523 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,886 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,377 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,351 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,110 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,779 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,140 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,955 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,311 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,180 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,046 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,399 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,152 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,422 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,758 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,338 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,209 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,403 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,086 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,613 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,482 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,603 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,336 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,210 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,998 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,423 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,490 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,403 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,280 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,512 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,881 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,407 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,190 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,048 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,604 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,575 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,070 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,605 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,386 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,110 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,472 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,343 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,742 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,114 | 7.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,540 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,266 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,540 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,328 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,980 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raena, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,653 Americans ever recorded as Raena. The median Raena alive today is 22 years old; half are between 11 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,357 people named Raena (1,352 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,409 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 218 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 342 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 547 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 499 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,038 babies since 1880, Raena is the eighth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 1,326 babies (2.6%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Raena
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 Raena and names like it
- Compare Raena and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRaena peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raena since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Raena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.