Araya Girl
How popular is Araya?
#1,052 girl name in 2025
235 baby girls were named Araya in the US in 2025, making it the 1052nd most popular girl name.
Araya popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,052 for girls (▲ 25 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 235 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+35% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,362 in 2015, #1,256 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (310 girls) |
| Highest rank | #899 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1979 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Araya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Araya family of names ranked #733 for girls in 2025 (#723 the year before), with 354 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Araya | 235 | 66% |
| Arayah | 96 | 27% |
| Araia | 7 | 2% |
| Araiah | 9 | 3% |
| Arraya | 7 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Araya is most popular
Babies named Araya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- West Virginia: 0.4 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Oregon: 0.3 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Oklahoma: 0.3 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- Washington: 0.3 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Colorado: 0.3 per 1,000 (29 girls)
Araya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1980s | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1990s | 232 | #2,728 |
| 2000s | 978 | #1,689 |
| 2010s | 1,514 | #1,233 |
| 2020s | 1,454 | #899 |
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Questions
- Is Araya a boy or girl name?
- Araya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Araya were girls.
- How popular is the name Araya?
- 235 baby girls were named Araya in the US in 2025, making it the 1052nd most popular girl name.
- When was Araya most popular?
- Araya peaked in 2022, when 310 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #899 in 2022.
- How many people are named Araya?
- 4,198 babies have been named Araya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,173 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Araya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Araya was most common in West Virginia, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.