Rayana
Rayana was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,695 among girls’ names; 1,185 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Rayana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayana?
#3,695 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayana rose from #6,665 in 2015 to #3,695 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 25.5 per million.
57 babies in 2001, the peak
Rayana peaked in 2001, when 57 girls were given it, #2,653 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,695 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,501 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,103 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,995 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,899 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,151 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,574 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,181 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,779 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,609 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,665 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,594 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,109 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,937 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,785 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,282 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,081 | 30.5 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,365 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,320 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,166 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,709 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,426 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,012 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,809 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,653 | 31.7 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,638 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,423 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,156 | 22.6 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,517 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,281 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,179 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,635 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,377 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,990 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,493 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,070 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,318 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,828 | 5.2 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,798 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayana, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,185 Americans ever recorded as Rayana. The median Rayana alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 922 people named Rayana (914 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 994 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 151 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 672 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 350 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,728 babies since 1880, Rayana is the eighth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 1,161 babies (3.5%), the fifth 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 Rayana
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 Rayana and names like it
- Compare Rayana and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRayana peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayana since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Rayana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.