Reyah
#7,417 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Reyah has been given to 300 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #7,417 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Reyah, 2025
1 in 221,000
Reyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Reyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,417
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Reyah 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Reyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Reyah was born before 2019 — so the typical Reyah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 46.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 300
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (138).
Is Reyah 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
- −1,305
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,966
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,344
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.88×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.5%
- Peak was 2022 (37)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.6% average annual change
Spellings of Reyah
Reyah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 42.2% against Reyah's 0.05%.
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 Reyah is used
Across 1910–2025, Reyah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,341,914 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
- 2Pennsylvania1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Reyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Reyah around the world
Where Reyah 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 & Wales2005–2025#4,201in 2025
- Canada2015–2024#1,854in 2024
- South Australia1979–1979#627in 1979
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Reyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Reyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Reyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.