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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Rae

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,306

down −39 places

2025 births

171

down −13 births

All-time births

23,460

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
406 births
Best rank
#313
in 1892
First recorded
1880
#573 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1956
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1956406#455Peak
  2. 1957393#478
  3. 1954370#460
  4. 1955367#475
  5. 1947350#438

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #313 in 1892 · peak births 406 in 1956

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 4% boys■ 96% girls

960 boys · 23,460 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Rae has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.