I don't know how to add a comment to the descriptions of a name so I post it at this board.
Raya(Rah-ya) is a Russian name too, it is a diminutive for
Raisa.
Raisa is a rare name, and I have met only a couple of them. They went by the nickname
Raya, not
Rasha, as it was mentioned in one of the comments. I am also a native Russuan, as the author of that comment, but I have never heard about the name
Rasha before.
I also know an American girl whose name is
Raya. She pronounces it "RAY-ah".
My PNL
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/111792