Rayana
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rayana is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ever moving. forceful.
- BRBrazil1 in 32K◐
- KWKuwait1 in 21K
- GYGuyana1 in 23K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.8K ●
- Sources
- 92 ●
- 1 in 23K ◐
across 8 countries
3.9K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
ever moving. forceful.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 6,575△ | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 32K | 6.6K | Rayana | 92 |
| US United States | — | 914△ | 412 rec. | 1 in 364K | 914 | Rayana | 73 |
| PL Poland | — | 110 | — | 1 in 348K | 110 | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | #952 | 109 | 42 rec. | — | — | Rayana | 6 |
| SY Syria | — | 93 | 105 rec. | — | — | Rayana | 6 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 89 | 23 rec. | — | — | Rayana | 25 |
| IN India | — | 88 | 40 rec. | — | 414 | Rayana | 11 |
| PH Philippines | — | 78 | 50 rec. | — | — | Rayana | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 65△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 157K | 65 | — | 5 |
| RU Russia | — | 49 | 32 rec. | — | — | Rayana | 12 |
| EG Egypt | — | 46 | 28 rec. | — | — | Rayana | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 33 | — | 1 in 23K | 33 | — | — |
Roughly 6.6K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 32K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese78K78%
- English11K11%
- Hindi3.1K3%
- French2.7K3%
- Arabic6001%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 78,328 | 78% |
| English | 11,358 | 11% |
| Hindi | 3,129 | 3% |
| French | 2,664 | 3% |
| Arabic | 600 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Rayana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, feminine singular of rayano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1947 | 3 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 3 |
| 1953 | 2 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 2 |
| 1956 | 1 |
| 1957 | 3 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 3 |
| 1960 | 3 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1962 | 1 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 3 |
| 1965 | 8 |
| 1966 | 3 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 13 |
| 1972 | 13 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 13 |
| 1976 | 18 |
| 1977 | 13 |
| 1978 | 13 |
| 1979 | 17 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 17 |
| 1982 | 20 |
| 1983 | 18 |
| 1984 | 26 |
| 1985 | 25 |
| 1986 | 28 |
| 1987 | 21 |
| 1988 | 31 |
| 1989 | 28 |
| 1990 | 22 |
| 1991 | 37 |
| 1992 | 46 |
| 1993 | 35 |
| 1994 | 36 |
| 1995 | 33 |
| 1996 | 21 |
| 1997 | 18 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 63 years between 1932–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Brandyb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter and actress (born 1979)
- Rayana Carvalhob. 1986BRBrazilian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 49 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.5K | #2,267 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4.4K | #1,638 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.4K | #3,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 914 | #13,184 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 883 | #4,338 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 414 | #10,611 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 190 | #4,968 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 186 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 110 | #1,459 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 110 | #1,459 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 65 | #11,509 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 251 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rayana?
- We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Rayana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rayana have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.6 thousand people bear Rayana in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rayana.
- How common is Rayana compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Rayana is the 670th most common given name of 2,246 given names recorded there.
- Is Rayana a male or female name?
- Rayana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Rayana mean?
- Recorded meaning: ever moving. forceful.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rayana” — the 670th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.