Raeya
Raeya was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,854 among girls’ names; 802 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raeya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raeya?
#2,854 among girls’ names, 2025
Raeya rose from #4,377 in 2015 to #2,854 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 37.3 per million.
80 babies in 2021, the peak
Raeya peaked in 2021, when 80 girls were given it, #2,304 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,854 | 37.3 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,629 | 41.4 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,550 | 43.6 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,522 | 43.3 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,304 | 48.8 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,128 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,321 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,476 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,052 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,315 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,377 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,742 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,960 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,080 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,098 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,843 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,278 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,628 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,626 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,765 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,965 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,739 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,950 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raeya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raeya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raeya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raeya, and how old are they?
An estimated 797 Americans named Raeya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 417 people named Raeya (413 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 38,825 babies since 1880, Raeya is the fifth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 1,394 babies (4.3%), again the fifth 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 Raeya
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 Raeya and names like it
- Compare Raeya and RaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRaeya peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raeya since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Raeya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raeya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.