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Raymond
Pronounced /ˈɹeɪ.mənd/
Rank in 2024
#379
Born in 2024
859
Peak year
1924 · #15
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 859 boys were named Raymond, about 1 in every 1,997.
- It peaked in 1924 with 12,872 babies, ranked #15.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 778,955 boys have been named Raymond since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Raymond per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 10.9Greatest1901–27
- 9.0Silent1928–45
- 5.4Boomers1946–64
- 3.3Gen X1965–80
- 2.0Millennials1981–96
- 1.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 182,677 babies, 10.93 per 1,000. Silent: 185,952 babies, 9.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 201,261 babies, 5.36 per 1,000. Gen X: 89,933 babies, 3.30 per 1,000. Millennials: 60,649 babies, 1.99 per 1,000. Gen Z: 33,030 babies, 1.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 13,596 babies, 0.63 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old French Raimund, from Frankish *Raginmund, from Proto-Germanic *Raginamunduz, composed of *raginą (“advice”) + *mundō (“protection”). Compare the first element in Reginald, Reynold, Ronald; the second element can be found in cognates Edmund, Sigmund, Osmond.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɹeɪ.mənd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Raymond, CC BY-SA 4.0.