Raiya
Raiya was given to 55 girls in 2025, #3,017 among girls’ names; 718 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raiya?
#3,017 among girls’ names, 2025
Raiya rose from #4,952 in 2015 to #3,017 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 34.2 per million.
77 babies in 2023, the peak
Raiya peaked in 2023, when 77 girls were given it, #2,374 among girls’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,017 | 34.2 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,792 | 37.6 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,374 | 48.0 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,715 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,882 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,895 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,372 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,975 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,991 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,571 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,952 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,233 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,278 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,678 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,051 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,187 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,361 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,330 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,030 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,770 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,318 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,143 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,127 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,479 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,802 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,576 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,126 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,712 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 713 Americans named Raiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 372 people named Raiya (363 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 372 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 14,604 babies since 1880, Raiya is the fifth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 1,218 babies (4.5%), 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 Raiya
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 Raiya and names like it
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