Rayna

Where Rayna comes from

The dictionaries list Rayna as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1932
    First appearance
    #4,411 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Rayna Foss born
    American musician
  3. 2003
    Rayna Vallandingham born
    American martial artist and actress
  4. 2019
    Peak, #650
    449 babies named Rayna — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Rayna Vallandingham · American martial artist and actress, born 2003
  • Rayna Foss · American musician, born 1970
  • Rayna Prohme · American journalist, 1894–1927
  • Rayna Green · American Indian historian and curator, born 1942

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.