Rayah
Rayah was given to 118 girls in 2025, #1,730 among girls’ names; 1,443 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Rayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayah?
#1,730 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayah rose from #3,336 in 2015 to #1,730 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 27.4 to 73.4 per million.
118 babies in 2025, the peak
Rayah peaked in 2025, when 118 girls were given it, #1,730 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 103 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,730 | 73.4 |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,937 | 63.6 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,265 | 51.1 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,677 | 39.6 |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,126 | 54.2 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,879 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,477 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,454 | 42.9 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,772 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,961 | 32.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,336 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,103 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,559 | 39.9 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,761 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,987 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,873 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,932 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,765 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,644 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,863 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,345 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,460 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,365 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,325 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,638 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,067 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,413 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,426 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,857 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,465 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,981 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,288 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,469 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,392 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayah 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 Rayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayah, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,443 Americans ever recorded as Rayah. The median Rayah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 838 people named Rayah (828 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 937 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 39 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 448 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 945 |
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).
How common is the spelling Rayah?
Rayah is a less common spelling of Raya: SSA has recorded 1,443 Rayah and 8,008 Raya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,619 babies since 1880, Rayah is the third most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 1,255 babies (9.4%), the second 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 Rayah
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 Rayah and names like it
- Compare Rayah and RayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRayah peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rayah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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