Raymond
Raymond is ranked 379th among boys in 2024 (859 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- #379down 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8590.05% of boys
- Peak year
- 192412,872 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1919
- Since 1880
- 782,472people given the name
The story in the numbers
778,955 boys have been named Raymond in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 12,872 births — 1.1% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 859 births in 2024, against 12,872 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 112 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,517 girls have also been given it, 0.45% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Raymond | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,135 | |
| 1890s | 7,572 | |
| 1900s | 11,650 | |
| 1910s | 71,820 | |
| 1920s | 124,213 | |
| 1930s | 99,583 | |
| 1940s | 109,070 | |
| 1950s | 108,932 | |
| 1960s | 81,788 | |
| 1970s | 49,340 | |
| 1980s | 41,503 | |
| 1990s | 31,721 | |
| 2000s | 20,449 | |
| 2010s | 13,399 | |
| 2020s | 4,780 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Raymond was the 15th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Raymond
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Alvinpeak 1927
- Rolandpeak 1924
- Gilbertpeak 1930
- Linwoodpeak 1948
- Norrispeak 1924
- Vernonpeak 1920
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.