Araya

Where Araya comes from

Araya hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #10,210 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Araya Mengesha born
    Canadian actor
  3. 2022
    Peak, #899
    310 babies named Araya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Araya Mengesha · Canadian actor, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.