Laraya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- lah-RAY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Laraya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
Where does Laraya come from?
Modern: Lara with the ending -aya
Is Laraya a girl's or a boy's name?
Laraya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Laraya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 7 girls.
Laraya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
How popular is Laraya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Laraya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
Half of all the girls named Laraya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Laraya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
Nicknames for Laraya
- Lara 522 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Laraya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Raya, Amaya, Amira, Aaliyah, Khadija, Alaya, Anaya, Inaya, Hafsa, Ayah, Abeeha
Names related to Laraya
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Laraya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/laraya, updated 20 October 2026.