girls:
2.3k births since 1889
#3629 (36th percentile)
boys:
306 births since 1914
#4280 (7th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1889
#5280 (32nd percentile)
The name Raye is the #5,280 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,569 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 31.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,629 (36.5% percentile) for all time with 2,263 births since 1889. For boys, it ranks #4,280 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 306 births since 1914.
Raye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Raye is available in 117 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (117 years for girls and 42 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Raye has been given predominantly to girls, with 88.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Raye were girls.
For girls, Raye reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 8.3% percentile (ranked #685) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 36 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Raye ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 22.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Raye reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #590) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raye".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Raye is pronounced as ray, which has 1 syllables.
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