girls:
3.5k births since 1896
#2913 (49th percentile)
boys:
778.1k births since 1880
#42 (99th percentile)
overall:
781.6k births since 1880
#69 (99th percentile)
The name Raymond is the #69 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 781,579 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #42 (99.1% percentile) for all time with 778,062 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,913 (49.0% percentile) for all time with 3,517 births since 1896.
Raymond has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1896 for girls).
The name Raymond has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Raymond reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 97.6% percentile (ranked #14) with 11,212 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 11,212 births per million (ranked 97.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1927, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Raymond ranks #339 for boys (62.9% percentile) with 491 births per million, which is 4.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Raymond reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 16.4% percentile (ranked #507) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 87 births per million (ranked 16.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raymond".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Raymond. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Raymond is pronounced as RAY-muhnd, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R EY1 M AH0 N D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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