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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Raye

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#6,769

up +1,110 places

2025 births

17

up +3 births

All-time births

2,297

1% of them in 2025

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
67 births
Best rank
#1,171
in 1912
First recorded
1889
#1,249 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1956
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
119 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195667#1,277Peak
  2. 195552#1,400
  3. 195749#1,544
  4. 196146#1,691
  5. 195245#1,451

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,171 in 1912 · peak births 67 in 1956

Boys and girls

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

● 12% boys■ 88% girls

306 boys · 2,297 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 Raye has ranked, decade by decade

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