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Araya

#1,052 in 2025Girls' name

Exemplary, model

Araya has been given to 4,198 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,052 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 310 recorded.

Babies named Araya, 2025

1 in 14,100

Araya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Araya: meaning, origin, and history

Exemplary, model

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Araya means

Araya means “exemplary, model”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,188 girls were recorded with the name Araya between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 310 in 2022; its best national rank was #899 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,257 in 2020 to #1,052 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,362 in 2015 to #1,052 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Araya between 2015 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2015; its best national rank was #12,214 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Araya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,100
235 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,840
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,052
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,779 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Araya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,779 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Araya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Araya was born before 2016 — so the typical Araya is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,188
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (1,514).

Is Araya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+25
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+310
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.8%
Peak was 2022 (310)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#899
2022

Spellings of Araya

Araya is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 11.7% against Araya's 0.40%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Araya is used

Across 2016–2025, Araya was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 7,600 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 25,000).

424 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 4,167
  2. 2Washington1 in 4,167
  3. 3Arizona1 in 4,348
  4. 4Ohio1 in 4,762
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 5,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 5,263
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 5,556
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 5,556

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Araya around the world

Where Araya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #747
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2021–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2019–2019
    #336
    in 2019
  • France
    2015–2024
    #6,793
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Araya

People whose public names include Araya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Araya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,052
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 205
Best rank ever
#899
2022
Peak year
2022
310 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,188
Count in 2025
235

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,214
2015
Peak year
2015
5 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Araya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AranzaInayaAraArayahAvayaJanayaJayaAralynAlayaSamayaAracelyNayaTayaSorayaZayaAdayaChayaJamayaShayaRayaSumayaTanayaLayaMalaya

Names with a curve like Araya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Araya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BlessingKeziahAyahZoyaNaylaMaisyZiaAmeeraScoutTallulahSafaAriela

Sibling names for Araya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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