Rayna
Rayna was given to 342 girls in 2025, #796 among girls’ names; 13,386 Americans have been recorded with it since 1932 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,000 Americans named Rayna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rayna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rayna is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rayna?
#796 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayna fell from #723 in 2015 to #796 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.22 to 0.21 per 1,000.
449 babies in 2019, the peak
Rayna peaked in 2019, when 449 girls were given it, #651 among girls’ names. The 342 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 342 | #796 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 388 | #728 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 392 | #717 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 376 | #764 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 395 | #726 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 397 | #706 | 0.25 |
| 2019 | 449 | #651 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 414 | #704 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 394 | #726 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 437 | #669 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 394 | #723 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 330 | #838 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 365 | #746 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 277 | #928 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 302 | #866 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 295 | #897 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 315 | #875 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 390 | #757 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 332 | #852 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 336 | #813 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 295 | #858 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 332 | #781 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 293 | #833 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 286 | #811 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 258 | #889 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 214 | #991 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 236 | #899 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 197 | #1,012 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 178 | #1,069 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 190 | #992 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 142 | #1,210 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 149 | #1,186 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 124 | #1,341 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,466 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,415 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 102 | #1,517 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 106 | #1,408 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,473 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,455 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,229 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 107 | #1,268 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 96 | #1,302 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,366 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,393 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,245 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 123 | #1,115 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 123 | #1,107 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 116 | #1,124 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 107 | #1,166 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 144 | #914 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,200 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 78 | #1,348 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,412 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 80 | #1,287 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,262 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,234 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 61 | #1,527 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,045 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,811 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,013 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,234 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,829 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,557 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,139 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,364 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,543 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,976 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,572 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,513 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,176 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,426 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,372 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,065 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,957 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayna, and how old are they?
13,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 13,386 Americans ever recorded as Rayna. The median Rayna alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 10,648 people named Rayna (10,604 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,918 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 57 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 405 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,230 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,040 |
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 Rayna born?
The states with the most babies named Rayna are Florida, New York and California, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 28 | #629 | 0.9× |
| New York | 27 | #624 | 0.9× |
| California | 23 | #1,142 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,254 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #681 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 15 | #657 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 14 | #585 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #610 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 12 | #784 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 11 | #903 | 0.9× |
Where Rayna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayna is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1932 it was given 1.3 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 Rayna 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,606 babies since 1880, Rayna is the most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 342 of their 1,306 babies (26%), 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 Rayna
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 Rayna and names like it
- Compare Rayna and RainaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRayna peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayna since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Rayna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.