Raeya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Raeya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Raeya: Recorded every year since 2006, its highest recorded position is #671, and it stood at #736 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#671highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#5061
2007	#5201
2008	#3397
2009	#5556
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2012	#4838
2013	#4050
2014	#2464
2015	#2195
2016	#1525
2017	#1512
2018	#1272
2019	#1063
2020	#1100
2021	#683
2022	#876
2023	#671
2024	#736

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2006 to 2024.

In 2024: #736 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2006–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2006
First recorded at #5061 among girls in England and Wales in 2006 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2006–2024
Highest recorded position: #671 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2006–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #736 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Raeya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2006, and has registered 386 births with the name.

Raeya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Raeya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#5061 (2006)	#671 (2023)	#736 (2024)	19 of 19	386 (2006–2024)	56 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#764 (2021)	#764 (2021)	#898 (2024)	2 of 4	7 (2021–2024)	4 (2021)

Raeya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Raeya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	15	4 of 10	4
2010s	140	10 of 10	14
2020sbusiest	231	5 of 10	46

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 46 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 26, from 30 to 56.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Raeya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #671 in England and Wales in 2023.

Raeya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#736	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#671	54	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#876	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#683	56	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1525	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2006 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #671, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Raegan · #873, 29y
Raewyn · #25, 19y
Rafa · #755, 18y
Rafael · #181, 53y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Boden · #657, 21y
Marlo · #657, 20y
Gio · #655, 22y
Lael · #655, 14y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Darcie-Mae · #674, 18y
Affan · #676, 22y
Azlaan · #676, 15y
Ionatan · #676, 17y

Raeya was ranked #671 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Raeya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Raeya without appearing here.

Raeya moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4050 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1272 and #5666.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #5691.
Therese Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #5691.
Eabha Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2195 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1525 and #4096.

Moved ahead of Raeya

Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1272 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1063 and #1063.

Moved the opposite way to Raeya

Abigail Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 while Abigail went from #23 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 while Aisling went from #1004 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 while Alex went from #279 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Raeya

Ada Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 and Ada from #976 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 and Alma from #1087 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 and Amelia from #16 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Raeya went from #5061 to #736 and Aria from #1280 to #35.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #671 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Raeya

Raeya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Raeya across 2 official records

Raeya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Raeya at a glance

Raeya across 2 official records

Raeya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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