Raea

#16,701 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Raea has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #16,701 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Raea, 2025

1 in 663,000

Raea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,701
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raea 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raeas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raea was born before 2017 — so the typical Raea is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
135
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.1% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Raea 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
−3,568
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,986
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,533
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2016 (12)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,298
2016

Spellings of Raea

Raea is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 13.4% against Raea's <0.01%.

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.

Raea around the world

Where Raea 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
    2013–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025

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

Raea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,701
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,986
Best rank ever
#9,298
2016
Peak year
2016
12 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
135
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Raea

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

Sibling names for Raea

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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