Araya is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Araya is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,178 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,177 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Araya.
Araya is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Araya cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #812 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Araya, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Araya seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Araya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
You may not know anyone named Araya, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 33 states are home to women and girls named Araya. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Araya living in one state or another. If your name is Araya and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Washington, which has the most people named Araya relative to the population, you still have to ask 19,846 women and girls their names before you hear Araya as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Araya is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Araya and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Araya, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Araya
Araya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
R
A
Y
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
R
A
Y
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Araya sounds like this:
