Raiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RYE-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Raiyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “banner, flag”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Raiyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Raiya; usually a spelling of Raya
“banner, flag”
A spelling of Raya, which can come from Arabic raya, a banner, or from Hebrew ra'yah, a friend or companion.
Meaning borrowed from Raiya.
Is Raiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Raiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Raiyah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 78% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Raiyah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 8 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Raiyah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Raiyah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 63 girls in the UK were given Raiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #609, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Raiyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 1 | #6,340 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
How popular is Raiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Raiyah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2010.
2025 had fewer girls named Raiyah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Raiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 204 girls in the US were given Raiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,046, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Raiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
Names like Raiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Nusaybah, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Ayah, Zainab, Hafsa, Rehmat, Abeeha, Safaa, Sumayyah, Aaliyah
Other spellings of Raiyah
Names related to Raiyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Raiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raiyah, updated 20 October 2026.