girls:
1.4k births since 1997
#4338 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1997
#6353 (18th percentile)
The name Arayah is the #6,353 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,390 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 17.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,338 (24.1% percentile) for all time with 1,390 births since 1997.
Arayah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (first recorded for girls in 1997). Birth data for Arayah is available in 26 out of the 27 years between 1997 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Arayah reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 10.7% percentile (ranked #836) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 61 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Arayah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #846 (10.7% percentile) with 61 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arayah".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Arayah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.4% confident that Arayah is pronounced as uh-RAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-RAI-uh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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