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Ray
Pronounced /ɹeɪ/
Rank in 2024
#4,898
Born in 2024
27
Peak year
1918 · #556
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:322 in 2024 (#776)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 27 girls were named Ray, about 1 in every 59,748.
- It peaked in 1918 with 162 babies, ranked #556.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 5,586 girls have been named Ray since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ray per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,306 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Silent: 1,138 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 770 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 328 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 146 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 65 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 241 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As an English surname, from pet forms derived from the root of Raymond. Also as an English surname, from Old French rei (“king”). Compare Roy, King. Also as an English surname, from Old English rā (“roe deer”). Compare Roe. Also as an English surname, variant of Wray and Rye. As a Scottish Gaelic surname, shortened from McRae. As a French surname, from the verb raier (“to gush out, flow, radiate”). Compare Leray. As a Polish and Slovene surname, Americanized from Raj, from raj (“paradise”). As an Indian surname, variant of Rai.
- A diminutive of the male given names Raymond, Rayane, and Rayan, also used as a formal given name.
- A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, more often spelled Rae.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ɹeɪ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ray, CC BY-SA 4.0.