Meaning not yet researched.
Raye: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,171 in 1912.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,171 in 1912; #6,769 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raye in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,769 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1912, at #1,171.
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Raye: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,171 in 1912 · most girls in one year: 67 (1956).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Raye, making it the 6,769th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,110 places from #7,879 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 14 girls named Raye in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,171, reached in 1912. The most girls given the name in a single year was 67, in 1956. For comparison, it was #10,709 in 2015 and #1,430 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Raye in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #2,007, reached in 1948. That year also had the most boys given the name: 15. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #3,256 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raye in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 6 babies. In all, 2,603 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 524 babies named Raye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 145 US girls were named Raye; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ray (210,307 babies since 1880), Rae (24,420 babies since 1880), Raya (8,008 babies since 1880) and Rayah (1,443 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Raye in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,769 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,879 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,561 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,221 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,368 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,277 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,273 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,680 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,227 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,637 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,709 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,613 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,589 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,950 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,560 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,137 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,000 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,890 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,618 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,599 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,325 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,447 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,635 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,071 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,987 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,417 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,195 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,400 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,294 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,926 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,560 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,391 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,542 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,480 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,986 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,034 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,849 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,321 | 6 | #6,223 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,684 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,642 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,846 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,459 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,218 | 5 | #6,634 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,114 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,014 | — | — |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,649 | 8 | #3,879 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,804 | 8 | #3,189 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,939 | 8 | #3,229 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,974 | 9 | #3,005 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,701 | 8 | #3,243 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,691 | 5 | #4,524 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,879 | 6 | #3,967 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,698 | 6 | #3,848 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,544 | 8 | #3,196 |
| 1956 | 67 | #1,277 | 7 | #3,462 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,400 | 5 | #4,272 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,555 | 9 | #2,904 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,523 | 12 | #2,374 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,451 | 8 | #3,051 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,602 | 6 | #3,639 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,430 | 7 | #3,256 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,686 | 8 | #2,971 |
| 1948 | 35 | #1,592 | 15 | #2,007 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,597 | 5 | #4,151 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,354 | 10 | #2,508 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,307 | 6 | #3,246 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,250 | 5 | #3,804 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,290 | 10 | #2,525 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,463 | 8 | #2,893 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,738 | 11 | #2,306 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,733 | 7 | #3,071 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,535 | 10 | #2,414 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,837 | 6 | #3,452 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,896 | 6 | #3,592 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,672 | 6 | #3,693 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,282 | 6 | #3,916 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,405 | 7 | #3,480 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,882 | 8 | #3,304 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,920 | 6 | #4,091 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,051 | 6 | #4,246 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,267 | 7 | #3,794 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,657 | 5 | #4,828 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,948 | 7 | #3,634 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,673 | 5 | #4,379 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,724 | 5 | #3,645 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,249 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).