The RAYA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,631	5653	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	1	112596	0	0
Change since 1880	+5630	+106943	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	13	73118	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for RAYA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,940	1614	0.009	87
Texas	567	5255	0.003	27
Illinois	491	3822	0.004	40
Florida	364	7670	0.002	23
Arizona	199	4359	0.004	39
Top States for RAYA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,940	1614	0.009	87
Illinois	491	3822	0.004	40
Arizona	199	4359	0.004	39
Nevada	69	4985	0.003	35
Texas	567	5255	0.003	27

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RAYA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAYA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAYA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAYA by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAYA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAYA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RAYA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RAYA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	532	9.45
Asian/Pacific	83	1.47
Black/African American	43	0.76
Native American/Alaskan	37	0.66
Mixed Race	30	0.53
White (Hispanic)	4,906	87.12

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RAYA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to RAYA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAYA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.