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Reya

#1,003 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Reya has been given to 2,939 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,003 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 305 recorded.

Babies named Reya, 2025

1 in 13,300

Reya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reya means

Reya is a given name.

The naming story behind Reya

Wikidata records Reya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q110272178, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,939 girls were recorded with the name Reya between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 305 in 2024; its best national rank was #886 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,279 in 2020 to #1,003 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,892 in 2015 to #1,003 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 Reya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,300
250 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,430
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,003
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,193 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reya 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,193 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reya was born before 2020 — so the typical Reya is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,939
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.2% of all recorded uses (1,476).

Is Reya 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
−117
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+276
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+889
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.0%
Peak was 2024 (305)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#886
2024

Spellings of Reya

Reya is not the most common spelling — Eva is, with 11.8% against Reya's 0.12%.

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 Reya is used

Across 2016–2025, Reya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,125 girls, against 1 in 7,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

232 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,125
  2. 2Washington1 in 3,846
  3. 3California1 in 5,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 5,263
  5. 5Illinois1 in 5,556
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 5,556
  7. 7New York1 in 6,250
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 6,667

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.

Reya around the world

Where Reya 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
    2000–2025
    #381
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #354
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2018–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #560
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Reya

People whose public names include Reya, 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.

Reya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,003
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 276
Best rank ever
#886
2024
Peak year
2024
305 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,939
Count in 2025
250

Names similar to Reya

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

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Names with a curve like Reya

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

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Sibling names for Reya

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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