girls:
23.1k births since 1880
#936 (84th percentile)
boys:
944 births since 1894
#3647 (20th percentile)
overall:
24k births since 1880
#1640 (79th percentile)
The name Rae is the #1,640 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,043 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #936 (83.6% percentile) for all time with 23,099 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,647 (20.4% percentile) for all time with 944 births since 1894.
Rae has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1894 for boys).
The name Rae has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rae reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 43.3% percentile (ranked #424) with 197 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 338 births per million (ranked 21.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rae ranks #755 for girls (20.3% percentile) with 113 births per million, which is 33.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rae reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #529) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 63 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rae ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rae".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Rae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Rae is pronounced as ray, which has 1 syllables.
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