Raiven
Raiven was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,881 among girls’ names; 433 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raiven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raiven?
#12,881 among girls’ names, 2025
Raiven fell from #12,742 in 2015 to #12,881 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
25 babies in 1997, the peak
Raiven peaked in 1997, when 25 girls were given it, #4,339 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,881 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,884 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,967 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,900 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,188 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,229 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,414 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,814 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,742 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,762 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #16,097 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,014 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,511 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,115 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,781 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,944 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,110 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,452 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,744 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,129 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,898 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,226 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,324 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,446 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,160 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,745 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,339 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,030 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,453 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,631 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,523 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,394 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,862 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,372 | 7.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raiven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raiven has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raiven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raiven, and how old are they?
An estimated 428 Americans named Raiven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 357 people named Raiven (328 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 401 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Raiven?
Raiven is a less common spelling of Rayven: SSA has recorded 433 Raiven and 3,188 Rayven since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,921 babies since 1880, Raiven is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,002 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Raiven
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 Raiven and names like it
- Compare Raiven and RayvenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRaiven peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raiven since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Raiven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raiven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.