Girls' name · since 2014
Raeyah
Raeyah has 80 recorded births since 2014 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2020 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #29,653 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,980 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Raeyah currently ranks #9980 among girls' names in America, with 80 babies recorded since 2014.
Raeyah has 80 recorded births among girls since 2014, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9980 as of the latest data, more common than 42% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2025.
- #29,653 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,980 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 80 born since 2014
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Raeyah ranks #29,653 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,980 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 80 born since 2014, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,653 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,980 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Raeyah's 80 recorded births place it above 58.94% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Raeyah compares
80 21st 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
Raeyah's all-time total is 79% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Raeyah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 80 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Raeyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Raeyah's full recorded timeline at 2021, 64% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 36% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2019, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2020 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Raeyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Raeyah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (63 births, 79% of the file).
2020s was Raeyah's strongest decade.
63 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 79% of all-time use.
Raeyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 17
2010s
17 births
- 2020s
2020s
63 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 63 births (79% of all-time use).
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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, 2014–2025 (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 Raeyah 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.