Raaya
- Gender
- Girl
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,509 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #3,388 for girls
Raaya is a girls' name, meaning “royal”. In 2025 it ranked 2,509th for girls in the UK (11 babies) and 3,388th for girls in the US (45 babies).
What does Raaya mean?
“royal”
A female given name from India, masculine equivalent Rai.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Raaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Raaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the UK and 45 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Raaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,509among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 25,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 667% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were named Raaya, making it the 2,509th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Raaya of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
In 2025, 696 girls in the UK were given Raaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #84, up from #2,509 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,438th in England and Wales.
Raaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
How popular is Raaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,388among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 45about 1 in 36,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popularnew in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 45 girls in the US were named Raaya, making it the 3,388th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had the most girls named Raaya of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Raaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,086 girls in the US were given Raaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #308, up from #3,388 for this spelling alone.
Raaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,388 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
Names like Raaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Rehmat Rahma Ayra Irha Hafsa Abeeha Raha Ayah Nusaybah Mirha Hiba
Other spellings of Raaya
Names related to Raaya
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, “Raaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raaya, updated 20 October 2026.