Raye — #7590 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Raye

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,279 babies named Raye between 1889 and 2024, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Raye currently holds the #7590 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 67 babies received it in a single year. Raye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 306 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raye performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 456 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Raye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 108 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Raye in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raye 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 2,279 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.