Raiya

#3,017 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Raiya has been given to 718 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #3,017 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Raiya, 2025

1 in 60,300

Raiya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 29,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,017
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raiya 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raiya was born before 2019 — so the typical Raiya is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
718
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (353).

Is Raiya 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
−225
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+878
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,935
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.96×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2023 (77)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,374
2023

Spellings of Raiya

Raiya is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 22.4% against Raiya's 0.06%.

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 Raiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Raiya was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 57,968 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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.

Raiya around the world

Where Raiya 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
    #816
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2024
    #541
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2019–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Raiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,017
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 878
Best rank ever
#2,374
2023
Peak year
2023
77 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
718
Count in 2025
55

Names similar to Raiya

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Sibling names for Raiya

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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