In August 2022, Raya from the film “Raya and the Last Dragon” was announced as the 13th official Disney Princess. Most of the group’s other dozen members have been part of the marketing brand since its launch in the early 2000s, while a few were added to the lineup in the years since. Over time, the Disney Princess criteria has shifted to be more focused on inner strength than outer beauty, and Raya just about perfectly illustrates that new ideal. Scroll through our photo gallery to find out her place on the Disney Princesses ranked list.

Originally, the Disney Princess club consisted of 10 characters: Snow White (“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”), Cinderella (“Cinderella”), Tinker Bell (“Peter Pan”), Aurora (“Sleeping Beauty”), Ariel (“The Little Mermaid”), Belle (“Beauty and the Beast”), Jasmine (“Aladdin”), Pocahontas (“Pocahontas”), Esmeralda (“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”), and Mulan (“Mulan”). After Tinker Bell and Esmeralda were removed,...