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Rayna

#796 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Rayna has been given to 13,386 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #796 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 449 recorded.

Babies named Rayna, 2025

1 in 9,690

Rayna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rayna: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rayna means

Rayna has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Rayna

A separate documented entry treats Rayna as a form of Regina. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Rayna as a alternate transcription of Yiddish. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Rayna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,386 girls were recorded with the name Rayna between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 449 in 2019; its best national rank was #651 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #706 in 2020 to #796 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #723 in 2015 to #796 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rayna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,690
342 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,700
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#796
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,720 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rayna 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,720 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raynas were born

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

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,180
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (3,657).

Is Rayna 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
−68
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−90
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−73
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.2%
Peak was 2019 (449)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#651
2019

Spellings of Rayna

Rayna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 32.5% against Rayna's 0.48%.

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 Rayna is used

Across 2016–2025, Rayna was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,515 girls, against 1 in 3,659 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 20,000).

566 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,515
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 1,538
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 1,818
  4. 4Iowa1 in 2,222
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 2,222
  6. 6Ohio1 in 2,273
  7. 7Michigan1 in 2,500
  8. 8Missouri1 in 2,564

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.

Geographically, Rayna is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 27% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Rayna around the world

Where Rayna 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
    1996–2025
    #705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2025
    #259
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,471
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #391
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Rayna

People whose public names include Rayna, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rayna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rayna. Linked forms have their own page here.

RainaRajna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rayna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#796
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 90
Best rank ever
#651
2019
Peak year
2019
449 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,386
Count in 2025
342

Names similar to Rayna

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

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Names with a curve like Rayna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rayna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rayna

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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