Rayona
Rayona was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 370 Americans have been recorded with it between 1928 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,161, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 2000, the peak
Rayona peaked in 2000, when 28 girls were given it, #4,369 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #13,161 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,134 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,997 | 3.1 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,752 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,102 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,243 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,513 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,282 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,439 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,013 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 27 | #5,196 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,074 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,313 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,375 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,729 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,325 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,369 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,164 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,442 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,812 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,300 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,362 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,912 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,527 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,560 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,825 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,655 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,337 | 2.8 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,850 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,291 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayona, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Rayona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 380 people named Rayona (379 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 344 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 45,380 babies since 1880, Rayona is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,153 babies recorded by SSA was a Rayona (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rayona
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 Rayona and names like it
- Compare Rayona and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRayona peaked in 2000.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayona since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Rayona.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayona alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.