Raye
Raye is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195667 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1889
- 2,585people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,279 girls have been named Raye in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 67 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 20%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 306 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Raye | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 38 | |
| 1910s | 177 | |
| 1920s | 204 | |
| 1930s | 197 | |
| 1940s | 341 | |
| 1950s | 456 | |
| 1960s | 323 | |
| 1970s | 154 | |
| 1980s | 82 | |
| 1990s | 83 | |
| 2000s | 44 | |
| 2010s | 86 | |
| 2020s | 77 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Raye was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Raye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laurenepeak 1954
- Annpeak 1957
- Rosalindpeak 1965
- Lornapeak 1957
- Vernettapeak 1951
- Sylviapeak 1937
- Robbiepeak 1957
- Arnettapeak 1953
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.