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Raena

Gender
Girl
Say it
RAY-nuh
US rank, 2025
#4,066 for girls

Raena is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,066th for girls in the US (35 babies).

Where does Raena come from?

Variant of Raina or Rayna, which have several possible roots

Is Raena a girl's or a boy's name?

Raena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Raena 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 8 girls.

2009Busiest: 8 in 20182023
Raena in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20231#7,582
20226#3,728
20217#3,338
20203#5,734
20190–
20188#3,068
20176#3,774
20160–
20153#5,983
20140–
20134#4,953
20120–
20114#4,980
20104#4,931
20091#7,377

How popular is Raena in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,066among girls
Babies in 2025
35about 1 in 46,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 22% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 35 girls in the US were named Raena, making it the 4,066th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,914th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 55 girls. It first appears in the records in 1959.

Half of all the girls named Raena in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 63 girls in the US were given Raena or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,277, up from #4,066 for this spelling alone.

1959Busiest: 55 in 20052025
Raena in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202535#4,066
202449#3,225
202337#3,982
202234#4,200
202137#3,933
202036#3,914
201935#4,071
201828#4,766
201748#3,305
201642#3,656
201528#4,852
201443#3,583
201350#3,217
201225#5,396
201129#4,806
201034#4,305
200935#4,268
200829#5,011
200731#4,674
200636#4,072
200555#2,931
200446#3,261
200332#4,105
200232#3,974
200140#3,364
200044#3,117
199937#3,371
199823#4,633
199725#4,236
199637#3,144
199533#3,352
199426#4,011
199317#5,413
199223#4,375
199122#4,491
199023#4,225
198917#5,043
198817#4,835
198719#4,280
198618#4,344
198518#4,280
198418#4,165
198323#3,430
198215#4,714
198125#3,340
198027#3,134
197928#2,997
197821#3,512
197721#3,485
197624#3,001
197519#3,513
197414#4,226
197311#4,869
197213#4,299
197120#3,266
19706#7,069
196913#3,957
19680–
196710#4,299
19660–
19655#6,538
19645#6,766
19630–
19625#6,577
19610–
19600–
19595#6,244

Names like Raena

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Raena

Names related to Raena

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, “Raena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raena, updated 20 October 2026.