Arayah
#1,991 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arayah has been given to 1,590 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #1,991 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 106 recorded.
Babies named Arayah, 2025
1 in 34,500
Arayah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Arayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 34,500
- 96 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 16,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,991
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 23,938 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arayah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 23,938 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arayah was born before 2017 — so the typical Arayah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,590
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (707).
Is Arayah 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
- −35
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +61
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −82
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.91×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 90.6%
- Peak was 2015 (106)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Arayah
Arayah is not the most common spelling — Aliyah is, with 12.8% against Arayah's 0.41%.
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 Arayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Arayah was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 23,668 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in 6,667
- 2Florida1 in 12,500
- 3North Carolina1 in 12,500
- 4Indiana1 in 14,286
- 5Louisiana1 in 16,667
- 6California1 in 25,000
- 7Missouri1 in 25,000
- 8Oklahoma1 in 25,000
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.
Arayah around the world
Where Arayah 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 & Wales2007–2025#1,315in 2025
- Canada2008–2024#2,710in 2024
- South Australia2009–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Arayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.