Reya
Reya was given to 250 girls in 2025, #1,003 among girls’ names; 2,939 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Reya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Reya?
#1,003 among girls’ names, 2025
Reya rose from #1,892 in 2015 to #1,003 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.16 per 1,000.
305 babies in 2024, the peak
Reya peaked in 2024, when 305 girls were given it, #886 among girls’ names. The 250 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 250 | #1,003 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 305 | #886 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 278 | #947 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 248 | #1,033 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 220 | #1,125 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 175 | #1,279 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 147 | #1,492 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,460 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 145 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 176 | #1,351 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,892 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,126 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,456 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,997 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,898 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,240 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,854 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,071 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,709 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,606 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,346 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,879 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,200 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,966 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,900 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,450 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,105 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,096 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,635 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,393 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,026 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,555 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,839 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Reya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Reya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reya, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,939 Americans ever recorded as Reya. The median Reya alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,527 people named Reya (1,520 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,496 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 59 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 505 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,350 |
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).
Where are babies named Reya born?
The states with the most babies named Reya are California, Texas and New York, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 44 | #712 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,346 | 0.6× |
| New York | 17 | #941 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 17 | #950 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #527 | 1.7× |
| Washington | 11 | #613 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 10 | #910 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #962 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #911 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #647 | 0.7× |
Where Reya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1982 it was given 1.7 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 Reya 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 27,758 babies since 1880, Reya is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 250 of their 851 babies (29%), again the second most given.
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 Reya
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 Reya and names like it
- Compare Reya and RheaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sReya peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reya since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Reya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Reya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.