Raven
Raven is ranked 388th among girls in 2024 (813 births). Its best rank was 139th, in 1993.
- Rank in 2024
- #388down 27 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8130.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 19932,285 births
- Best rank
- #139in 1993
- Since 1941
- 47,425people given the name
The story in the numbers
44,135 girls have been named Raven in the United States since 1941, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 2,285 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 506 → 388).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 42%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 3,290 boys have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Raven | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 51 | |
| 1950s | 67 | |
| 1960s | 138 | |
| 1970s | 1,189 | |
| 1980s | 3,968 | |
| 1990s | 18,502 | |
| 2000s | 10,034 | |
| 2010s | 6,228 | |
| 2020s | 3,958 |
In 1993, its biggest year
Raven was the 139th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1993 were Jessica, Ashley, Sarah, Samantha and Emily. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Raven
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marielenapeak 1992
- Mccallpeak 1993
- Alexandriapeak 1993
- Katarinapeak 1994
- Kassandrapeak 1993
- Karishmapeak 1994
- Alejandrapeak 1994
- Symonepeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.