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Ray name image The table below indicates the number of times the name Ray has been given to baby girls in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ray
Use of the Name Ray
for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
3,643000000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Ray has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ray
 Used as a Girl NameUsed as a Boy Name
YearRankCountRankCount
1880668895142
18815341187148
18824881582196
18836441078202
18844382277232
18854252574237
18864902167271
18874872266258
18884672963331
18894513054355
18903814456349
18914213649360
18924393857385
18934533556378
18944444057379
18955732856380
18965033550426
18974464452396
18985853156394
18995233361315
19006013555457
19018201759338
19025084057391
19035633455397
19046393055432
19055264360426
19065264462420
19076113860475
19085734367447
19095395067475
19105475668544
19115276371602
191264560771,047
191363367731,324
1914536109741,661
1915581126672,364
1916584133732,336
1917595132742,426
1918559161692,765
1919624127692,726
1920606138673,093
1921643133663,072
192274496653,058
1923678121613,167
1924675122603,373
192575297643,210
1926655122573,403
1927700109603,242
192873394573,243
1929652115573,165
1930680102583,234
193174283603,154
193280772593,256
193381168623,032
193482568643,164
193579174643,057
193685264642,936
1937  712,724
1938  722,880
1939  742,703
1940  772,796
1941  832,696
1942  843,055
1943  843,045
1944  862,897
1945  932,733
1946  953,161
1947  973,377
1948  1003,122
1949  1102,696
1950  1112,634
1951  1152,664
1952  1132,695
1953  1152,805
1954  1182,972
1955  1133,059
1956  1133,219
1957  1113,405
1958  1213,191
1959  1213,209
1960  1213,076
1961  1262,917
1962  1322,677
1963  1312,581
1964  1422,276
1965  1482,085
1966  1551,820
1967  1651,620
1968  1691,590
1969  1821,525
1970  1871,455
1971  1961,264
1972  1971,177
1973  2061,048
1974  222950
1975  228897
1976  238848
1977  251803
1978  257790
1979  257824
1980  261839
1981  255854
1982  254865
1983  272763
1984  272767
1985  272764
1986  283740
1987  283768
1988  305742
1989  326721
1990  329753
1991  349692
1992  394582
1993  413561
1994  405565
1995  455494
1996  484444
1997  484443
1998  490445
1999  516412
2000  516433
2001  575357
2002  582371
2003  618332
2004  577384
Totals:  3,643 197,098

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ray as a girl's name about 1% of the time and more frequently (about 98% of the time) as a boy's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Ray appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 57 times during the last 125 years.

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