Girls' name · since 2007
Rayva
Rayva has 25 recorded births since 2007 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #43,318 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,250 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 25
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rayva currently ranks #16250 among girls' names in America, with 25 babies recorded since 2007.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rayva has been recorded 25 times among girls since 2007, currently ranked #16250 nationally and more common than 6% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #43,318 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,250 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 25 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rayva ranks #43,318 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,250 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 25 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #43,318 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,250 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 25
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rayva's 25 recorded births place it above 39.95% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Rayva compares
25 9th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Rayva's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Rayva | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 25 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Rayva's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Rayva splits its recorded history at 2023: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2007 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Rayva popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Rayva by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (13 births, 52% of the file).
2020s was Rayva's strongest decade.
13 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Rayva births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
7 births
- 2020s
2020s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 13 births (52% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rayva draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.