Raaya

#3,441 in 2025Girls' name

Royal

Raaya has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #3,441 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Raaya, 2025

1 in 73,700

Raaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raaya: meaning, origin, and history

Royal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raaya means

Raaya means “royal”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Associated with Hindi [Term?], meaning "royal" or "royalty", from the terms rai, raj, etc. Some texts also indicate it means "always". Also associated with the term Rah, meaning path, road or journey.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Raaya (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Raaya is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 163 girls were recorded with the name Raaya between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,441 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,504 in 2015 to #3,441 in 2025.

How common is Raaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 73,700; 45 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 35,700; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #3,441; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 51,066 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Raaya 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raaya was born before 2024 — so the typical Raaya is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 79.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 163; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 79.8% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Raaya 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: +362; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +15,063; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 9.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (45)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 42.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,441; 2025

Spellings of Raaya

Raaya is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 18.3% against Raaya's 0.02%.

Maya18.3%123,587
Tanya17.3%116,855
Amaya6.4%43,525
Arya4.4%29,536
Anya3.0%20,561
Anaya2.7%17,997
Chaya2.3%15,674
Rayna2.0%13,386

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 Raaya is used

Across 1910–2025, Raaya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 779,319 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New Jersey1 in —
3Texas1 in —

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. Raaya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raaya around the world

Where Raaya 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
2015–2025
#2,440
in 2025
Canada
2024–2024
#1,968
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Raaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #3,441
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,441; 2025
Peak year: 2025; 45 that year
First recorded: 2009
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 163
Count in 2025: 45

Names similar to Raaya

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

Raaga Raahi Raavi Rhaya Smaya Imaya Saaya Fraya Azaya Khaya Omaya Evaya Maaya Ruqaya Seraya Emaya Salaya Lavaya Kelaya Vaya Olaya Savaya Raaha Sinaya

Sibling names for Raaya

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

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Eloisa Shoshana Nila Kamilah Denisse

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Leander Henri Lucio Gray

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