Rayisa
Most Poles have never met one: only about a hundred women carry it, with no newborns on record since 2000. It arrived with Ukrainian families, a Slavic name from a root meaning easy-going and relaxed.
Rayisa Pronunciation
Rayisa is pronounced rah-ih-EE-sah (/raɨˈisa/).
What Rayisa means
Where Rayisa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rayisa comes from Slavic soil, and Ukrainian speakers carry it most, writing it Раїса. The name settles on a single idea: someone easy-going and relaxed, hard to rattle. The meaning points at temperament, at a person who takes the day as it comes.
That sense of calm was not always the whole story. The name has passed between generations of Ukrainian families, and Polish registers pick it up where the two languages meet. It stays rare here. A girl named Rayisa on a school class register stands slightly apart from the Zofias and Marias around her.
No diminutives came down with it, no softened nursery form. The form stays whole, Rayisa. What travels is the plain sense, unchanged: easy-going, relaxed.
How many people are named Rayisa
1 in 221018 women in Poland is named Rayisa. 102 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3411 among female names.