Rayna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Rayna: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #281 in 2020, and it stood at #325 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#281highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#2738
1998	#2701
1999	#2444
2000	#1594
2001	#3262
2002	#2540
2003	#2727
2004	#3197
2005	#3382
2006	#2781
2007	#2895
2008	#2487
2009	#1837
2010	#1815
2011	#1608
2012	#1991
2013	#2176
2014	#2314
2015	#1601
2016	#1057
2017	#1144
2018	#990
2019	#823
2020	#807
2021	#901
2022	#876
2023	#754
2024	#676

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

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #638 among girls in Scotland, #676 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2018–2024
Highest recorded position: #281 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2018–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #325 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Rayna appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 556 births with the name.

Rayna across 3 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.

Rayna'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	#2350 (1996)	#676 (2024)	#676 (2024)	29 of 29	556 (1996–2024)	56 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#325 (2025)	#325 (2025)	10 of 18	62 (2008–2025)	12 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#313 (2018)	#281 (2020)	#337 (2024)	7 of 7	29 (2018–2024)	5 (2018)

Rayna 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 Rayna in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	22	4 of 10	6
2000s	74	10 of 10	7
2010s	233	10 of 10	23
2020sbusiest	227	5 of 10	45

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 45 births a year.

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

Rayna 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Rayna'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	#676	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#754	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#876	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#901	39	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#807	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#823	45	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#990	36	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1601	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1608	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1837	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1594	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#313	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	12	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#355	11	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #281, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 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.

Raymond · #17, 81y
Rayn · #1596, 21y
Rayne · #541, 26y
Raysa · #2178, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Miya · #281, 30y
Rylie · #281, 26y
Wilson · #280, 29y
Dalton · #279, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Anna-Rose · #281, 22y
Bradan · #281, 14y
Caoilte · #281, 9y
Daisie · #281, 29y

Rayna was ranked #281 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. 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.

Rayna 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 Rayna without appearing here.

Rayna moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2895 and #2895 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2487 and #5545.
Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2487 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1815 and #4688.
Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2781 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1837 and #4564.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1991 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2176 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Rayna

Ada Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1594 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3262 and #1520.
Ida Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1594 and #2167 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3262 and #1728.
Aria Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1594 and #2416 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3262 and #1870.
Audrey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2350 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2738 and #1666.

Moved the opposite way to Rayna

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Rayna

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rayna went from #2350 to #676 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rayna

Rayna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rayna across 3 official records

Rayna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rayna appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rayna at a glance

Rayna across 3 official records

Rayna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rayna appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rayna

Rayna and the names beside it

Rayna moved ahead of

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