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Ray
Pronounced /ɹeɪ/
Rank in 2024
#776
Born in 2024
322
Peak year
1926 · #57
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:27 in 2024 (#4,898)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 322 boys were named Ray, about 1 in every 5,327.
- It peaked in 1926 with 3,409 babies, ranked #57.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 204,384 boys 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.
- 2.8Greatest1901–27
- 2.6Silent1928–45
- 1.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 47,214 babies, 2.82 per 1,000. Silent: 53,896 babies, 2.61 per 1,000. Boomers: 55,842 babies, 1.49 per 1,000. Gen X: 19,572 babies, 0.72 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,092 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,234 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,943 babies, 0.18 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.