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Reya vs Reyna

American parents have registered 18,679 Reynas since 1880, against 2,939 Reyas. Reyna is still ahead, with 493 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reya against Reyna, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reya Reyna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Reyna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Reya had 305 and Reyna had 543.

Side by side

  Reya Reyna
Total US births 2,93918,679
Most in one year 305543
Babies in 2025 250493
Estimated living today 2,90018,000
Median age today 520
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 884th girls559th girls
Rank in 2025 1,003rd594th
First recorded 19821913
Girls / boys 2,939 / 018,647 / 32

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Reynas alive today are over 20; half the Reyas are over 5. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Reya Reyna
England and Wales 1,045227
Switzerland 3033
Ireland 3723
Scotland 517

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Reya and Reyna.