Raysa — girls' name
121 babies named Raysa in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Raysa was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Raysa in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Raysa
The Social Security Administration has registered 121 babies named Raysa between 1970 and 2009, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Raysa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Raysa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 49 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Raysa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Raysa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Raysa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 121 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Raysa at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Raysa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1970
- Peak year (1999)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
121 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 9 births in a single year.
Raysa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 49 births that decade — 40% of Raysa's all-time total
Raysa decade highlights
- Peak decade 49 births
- Runner-up 32 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Raysa's strongest decade
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Raysa by state
Where Raysa concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 8.3% |
10 of 121 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 8.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 8.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.