as a Last Name
- 1,879
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Raia
Meaning & Origins
Italian: 1. topographic name from Sicilian raia ‘smilax’ (a climbing shrub). 2. from Sicilian raja ‘ray’, ‘skate’ (the fish), presumably a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish or a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller. 3. from Arabic rāyah ‘flag’.
| 15,619th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,879
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New York
- has the most people named Raia per capita
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