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Rayana

#3,695 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Rayyan

Rayana has been given to 1,185 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,695 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Rayana, 2025

1 in 80,900

Rayana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rayana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rayyan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rayana means

Rayana is a form of Rayyan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rayana → Rayyan. The family’s meaning is “watered, luxuriant”, recorded in the naming reference for Rayyan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rayyan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,185 girls were recorded with the name Rayana between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2001; its best national rank was #2,653 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,151 in 2020 to #3,695 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,665 in 2015 to #3,695 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rayana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,695
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rayana 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rayanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayana was born before 2007 — so the typical Rayana is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,185
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Choose a decade

2000s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (475).

Is Rayana 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
−194
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,456
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,970
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.9%
Peak was 2001 (57)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,653
2001

Spellings of Rayana

Rayana is not the most common spelling — Ramona is, with 14.4% against Rayana's 0.24%.

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 Rayana is used

Across 1910–2025, Rayana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 388,102 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Rayana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rayana around the world

Where Rayana 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
    2003–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,139
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2009–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rayana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,695
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,456
Best rank ever
#2,653
2001
Peak year
2001
57 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,185
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Rayana

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

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Sibling names for Rayana

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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