Reiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAY-ya
- Origin
- Japanese
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Reiya is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Reiya come from?
Japanese: Japanese name whose meaning depends on the characters used; also a spelling of Raya
Is Reiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Reiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Reiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 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, 5 girls in the UK were named Reiya, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Reiya of any year since it first appeared, in 2005.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Reiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Rayya 7
- Reiya 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Reiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
How popular is Reiya 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 Reiya, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Reiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Reiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
Names like Reiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Raya, Safa, Hafsa, Rehmat, Rahma, Ayra, Hiba, Ayah, Ayzal, Aqsa, Mirha, Halima
Other spellings of Reiya
Names related to Reiya
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Kyomi, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kiyomi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo
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, “Reiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/reiya, updated 20 October 2026.