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Rayana

About 1,185 American babies have been named Rayana since 1981, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 3,645th. About 1,200 Rayanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rayana

By the numbers

Total US births
1,185
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
18
Peak year
2001
Best rank
2,635th
Rank in 2025
3,645th
First recorded
1981

How old the living Rayanas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,185 babies given the name since 1981, about 1,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 550 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Rayana is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rayana is most concentrated in California (4.0×), New York (3.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2001

The most popular girls’ names the year Rayana peaked:

All the names of 2001

Rayana elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Rayana 635 1,088th
England and Wales girls Rayana 97 2,788th
Poland girls Rayana 90 birth registrations 202nd
Switzerland girls Rayana 46 995th
Belgium girls Rayana 39 1,052nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Rayana: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Rayana 32 0.003% 868th
French girls Switzerland Rayana 13 0.003% 647th
Italian girls Switzerland Rayana 1 0.002% 161st

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Rayana: rank by region

In 2008, Rayana was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Rayana 775 6

In 2025, Rayana was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Mazowieckie Rayana 326 2

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Rayana among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Rayana 8 10

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Rayana against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.