Raven — #387 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Raven

The Social Security Administration has registered 44,135 babies named Raven between 1941 and 2024, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Raven currently holds the #387 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 2,285 babies received it in a single year. Raven is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,290 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raven performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 18,502 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Raven shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,966 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Raven in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raven in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 44,135 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.