girls:
3.7k births since 1979
#2836 (50th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 2015
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1979
#4499 (42nd percentile)
The name Araya is the #4,499 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,724 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 41.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,836 (50.4% percentile) for all time with 3,714 births since 1979. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2015.
Araya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 2015 for boys). Birth data for Araya is available in 36 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023 (36 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Araya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Araya reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 31.2% percentile (ranked #659) with 173 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 173 births per million (ranked 31.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Araya ranks #700 for girls (26.1% percentile) with 146 births per million, which is 84.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Araya reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Araya".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Araya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.7% confident that Araya is pronounced as uh-RAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-RAH-yuh, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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