Rayah
#1,730 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rayah has been given to 1,443 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #1,730 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 118 recorded.
Babies named Rayah, 2025
1 in 28,100
Rayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 28,100
- 118 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 13,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,730
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 19,475 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rayah 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 19,475 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayah was born before 2016 — so the typical Rayah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 40.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,443
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (579).
Is Rayah 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
- +207
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,149
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,606
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.41×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (118)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.9% average annual change
Spellings of Rayah
Rayah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 68.8% against Rayah's 0.09%.
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 Rayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Rayah was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 39,103 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in 16,667
- 2Georgia1 in 20,000
- 3Florida1 in 25,000
- 4Massachusetts1 in 25,000
- 5Indiana1 in 33,333
- 6Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 7Maryland1 in 33,333
- 8California1 in 50,000
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.
Rayah around the world
Where Rayah 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 & Wales1998–2025#733in 2025
- Scotland2016–2025#359in 2025
- Northern Ireland2021–2025#397in 2025
- Ireland2021–2025#608in 2025
- France2022–2024#4,559in 2024
- Canada2004–2024#1,151in 2024
- South Australia1995–1995#712in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Rayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.