Raymond
Raymond was given to 807 boys in 2025, #395 among boys’ names; 783,311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 352,000 Americans named Raymond and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 41 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raymond by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raymond mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raymond is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.” Its etymology gives the senses “advice” (*raginą) and “protection” (*mundō).
From Old French Raimund, from Frankish *Raginmund, from Proto-Germanic *Raginamunduz, composed of *raginą (“advice”) + *mundō (“protection”). Compare the first element in Reginald, Reynold, Ronald; the second element can be found in cognates Edmund, Sigmund, Osmond.
/ˈɹeɪ.mənd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raymond?
#395 among boys’ names, 2025
Raymond fell from #260 in 2015 to #395 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.72 to 0.47 per 1,000.
12,930 babies in 1924, the peak
Raymond peaked in 1924, when 12,930 babies were given it (12,873 boys, #15 among boys’ names). The 807 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 807 | #395 | 0.47 |
| 2024 | 864 | #380 | 0.50 |
| 2023 | 906 | #360 | 0.53 |
| 2022 | 970 | #343 | 0.56 |
| 2021 | 991 | #331 | 0.57 |
| 2020 | 1,062 | #311 | 0.62 |
| 2019 | 1,025 | #325 | 0.57 |
| 2018 | 1,164 | #299 | 0.64 |
| 2017 | 1,208 | #293 | 0.65 |
| 2016 | 1,280 | #284 | 0.67 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,386 | #260 | 0.72 |
| 2014 | 1,411 | #263 | 0.73 |
| 2013 | 1,349 | #264 | 0.71 |
| 2012 | 1,463 | #250 | 0.77 |
| 2011 | 1,533 | #233 | 0.81 |
| 2010 | 1,587 | #224 | 0.83 |
| 2009 | 1,650 | #220 | 0.83 |
| 2008 | 1,780 | #215 | 0.87 |
| 2007 | 1,965 | #201 | 0.95 |
| 2006 | 2,045 | #194 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 1,971 | #196 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 2,060 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 2,057 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 2,186 | #176 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 2,342 | #163 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 2,404 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 2,649 | #144 | 1.4 |
| 1998 | 2,644 | #141 | 1.4 |
| 1997 | 2,705 | #138 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 2,816 | #132 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 2,920 | #124 | 1.5 |
| 1994 | 3,143 | #115 | 1.6 |
| 1993 | 3,330 | #108 | 1.7 |
| 1992 | 3,587 | #104 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 3,865 | #97 | 1.9 |
| 1990 | 4,062 | #92 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 4,106 | #86 | 2.1 |
| 1988 | 4,036 | #84 | 2.1 |
| 1987 | 3,996 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 1986 | 4,055 | #77 | 2.2 |
| 1985 | 4,085 | #75 | 2.2 |
| 1984 | 3,971 | #73 | 2.2 |
| 1983 | 4,016 | #71 | 2.2 |
| 1982 | 4,294 | #70 | 2.4 |
| 1981 | 4,367 | #68 | 2.4 |
| 1980 | 4,578 | #66 | 2.6 |
| 1979 | 4,335 | #70 | 2.5 |
| 1978 | 4,134 | #69 | 2.5 |
| 1977 | 4,372 | #65 | 2.7 |
| 1976 | 4,218 | #65 | 2.7 |
| 1975 | 4,530 | #63 | 2.9 |
| 1974 | 4,577 | #62 | 2.9 |
| 1973 | 4,831 | #60 | 3.1 |
| 1972 | 5,443 | #54 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6,104 | #52 | 3.5 |
| 1970 | 6,788 | #49 | 3.7 |
| 1969 | 6,638 | #50 | 3.7 |
| 1968 | 6,883 | #50 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 7,065 | #48 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 7,376 | #47 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8,051 | #45 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 8,592 | #44 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 8,780 | #45 | 4.3 |
| 1962 | 9,070 | #48 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 9,618 | #48 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9,720 | #46 | 4.6 |
| 1959 | 9,796 | #45 | 4.6 |
| 1958 | 10,226 | #43 | 4.8 |
| 1957 | 10,810 | #39 | 5.0 |
| 1956 | 11,108 | #39 | 5.3 |
| 1955 | 10,994 | #36 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 11,242 | #35 | 5.5 |
| 1953 | 11,110 | #34 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 11,235 | #33 | 5.8 |
| 1951 | 11,227 | #32 | 6.0 |
| 1950 | 11,180 | #31 | 6.2 |
| 1949 | 11,305 | #30 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 11,612 | #27 | 6.6 |
| 1947 | 12,352 | #27 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 11,289 | #25 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 9,858 | #23 | 7.3 |
| 1944 | 10,635 | #22 | 7.8 |
| 1943 | 11,391 | #22 | 8.0 |
| 1942 | 11,116 | #24 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 9,951 | #22 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 9,567 | #22 | 8.3 |
| 1939 | 9,252 | #22 | 8.4 |
| 1938 | 9,725 | #20 | 8.8 |
| 1937 | 9,571 | #19 | 9.0 |
| 1936 | 9,459 | #17 | 9.1 |
| 1935 | 9,564 | #17 | 9.2 |
| 1934 | 9,588 | #19 | 9.3 |
| 1933 | 9,512 | #19 | 9.6 |
| 1932 | 10,346 | #19 | 9.9 |
| 1931 | 10,854 | #17 | 10.4 |
| 1930 | 11,714 | #16 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 11,909 | #15 | 11.1 |
| 1928 | 11,946 | #16 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 12,807 | #15 | 11.4 |
| 1926 | 12,809 | #15 | 11.5 |
| 1925 | 12,441 | #15 | 11.1 |
| 1924 | 12,873 | #15 | 11.4 |
| 1923 | 12,460 | #15 | 11.4 |
| 1922 | 12,129 | #16 | 11.1 |
| 1921 | 12,645 | #16 | 11.5 |
| 1920 | 12,193 | #15 | 11.5 |
| 1919 | 11,384 | #14 | 11.6 |
| 1918 | 11,604 | #15 | 11.4 |
| 1917 | 9,956 | #16 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 9,565 | #16 | 10.7 |
| 1915 | 8,981 | #16 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 6,821 | #16 | 10.4 |
| 1913 | 5,310 | #18 | 10.4 |
| 1912 | 4,374 | #18 | 10.2 |
| 1911 | 2,088 | #19 | 9.2 |
| 1910 | 1,737 | #19 | 8.9 |
| 1909 | 1,441 | #20 | 8.8 |
| 1908 | 1,381 | #21 | 8.9 |
| 1907 | 1,290 | #21 | 8.8 |
| 1906 | 1,133 | #21 | 8.5 |
| 1905 | 1,159 | #21 | 8.8 |
| 1904 | 1,093 | #22 | 8.5 |
| 1903 | 1,051 | #21 | 8.8 |
| 1902 | 1,064 | #21 | 8.7 |
| 1901 | 888 | #22 | 8.3 |
| 1900 | 1,150 | #23 | 7.6 |
| 1899 | 869 | #22 | 8.2 |
| 1898 | 929 | #23 | 7.6 |
| 1897 | 837 | #22 | 7.4 |
| 1896 | 859 | #24 | 7.2 |
| 1895 | 806 | #26 | 6.9 |
| 1894 | 767 | #27 | 6.6 |
| 1893 | 703 | #29 | 6.3 |
| 1892 | 681 | #31 | 5.6 |
| 1891 | 575 | #30 | 5.7 |
| 1890 | 546 | #36 | 4.9 |
| 1889 | 511 | #37 | 4.6 |
| 1888 | 469 | #45 | 3.9 |
| 1887 | 372 | #47 | 3.7 |
| 1886 | 353 | #52 | 3.2 |
| 1885 | 308 | #58 | 2.9 |
| 1884 | 299 | #62 | 2.6 |
| 1883 | 233 | #68 | 2.2 |
| 1882 | 230 | #78 | 2.0 |
| 1881 | 195 | #74 | 1.9 |
| 1880 | 165 | #87 | 1.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raymond a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raymond has been given almost only to boys: 3,517 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Raymond: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raymond, and how old are they?
352,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 45% of the 783,311 Americans ever recorded as Raymond. The median Raymond alive today is 60 years old; half are between 41 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 364,286 people named Raymond (540 women and girls, 363,746 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400,548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 35,600 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 132,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 79,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 57,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 32,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,300 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Raymond born?
The states with the most babies named Raymond are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 75,176 | #391 | 1.1× |
| California | 62,731 | #327 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 58,332 | #303 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 45,541 | #528 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 39,617 | #518 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 39,505 | #331 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 32,162 | #328 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 28,403 | #310 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 26,368 | #375 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 18,397 | #389 | 0.9× |
Where Raymond is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raymond is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Raymond with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 785,912 babies since 1880, Raymond is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 807 of their 807 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Raymond
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Raymond and names like it
- Compare Raymond and RamondBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRaymond peaked in 1924.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raymond since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Raymond: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Raymond.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Raymond alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.