Raisa — #4793 US girls' name
1,291 babies named Raisa in U.S. Social Security records since 1962, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 73% of names given to girls today.
29% of everyone ever named Raisa was born in this single decade.
94 babies were named Raisa in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Raisa
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,291 babies named Raisa between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Raisa currently holds the #4793 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 94 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Raisa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 374 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Raisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 257 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Raisa in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Raisa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,291 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Raisa at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Raisa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1962
- Peak year (1988)
- 94
- Annual births at peak — across 63 years of records
Currently ranks #4793 among girls.
1,291 total births across 63 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 94 births in a single year.
Raisa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 374 births that decade — 29% of Raisa's all-time total
Raisa decade highlights
- Peak decade 374 births
- Runner-up 269 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Raisa's strongest decade
374 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Raisa by state
Where Raisa concentrates geographically — total births since 1962
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 257 | 19.9% |
| #2 | California | | 134 | 10.4% |
| #3 | Texas | | 44 | 3.4% |
| #4 | Florida | | 25 | 1.9% |
| #5 | Georgia | | 12 | 0.9% |
| #6 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #8 | Virginia | | 5 | 0.4% |
257 of 1,291 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 19.9% of nationwide
- California 10.4% of nationwide
- Texas 3.4% of nationwide
- Florida 1.9% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 19.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1962–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.