Raisa
Raisa was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,638 among girls’ names; 1,322 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Raisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 14 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raisa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raisa is “a transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa).”
Also “a transliteration of the Belarusian female given name Раі́са (Raísa).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raisa?
#4,638 among girls’ names, 2025
Raisa rose from #5,089 in 2015 to #4,638 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 18.7 per million.
94 babies in 1988, the peak
Raisa peaked in 1988, when 94 girls were given it, #1,462 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,638 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,861 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,092 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,135 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,923 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,861 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,135 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,105 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,628 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,758 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,089 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,648 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,302 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,120 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,290 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,943 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,005 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,751 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,029 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,659 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,852 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,581 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,907 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,725 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,174 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,150 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,841 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,596 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,213 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,797 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,462 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,283 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,959 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,538 | 27.1 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,823 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,963 | 36.9 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,888 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 94 | #1,462 | 52.8 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,233 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,849 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,943 | 7.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,730 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,291 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,809 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,268 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,796 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,437 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,428 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,877 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,356 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,332 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raisa, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,322 Americans ever recorded as Raisa. The median Raisa alive today is 27 years old; half are between 14 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 5,712 people named Raisa (5,702 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 506 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 427 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 313 |
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 Raisa born?
The states with the most babies named Raisa are New York, California and Texas, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 257 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| California | 134 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Raisa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raisa is most over-represented in New York: since 1962 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Raisa 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,180 babies since 1880, Raisa is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 30 babies (100%), again the 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 Raisa
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 Raisa and names like it
- Compare Raisa and RaissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRaisa peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raisa since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Raisa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Raisa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.