Rae

Where Rae comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Rae.

  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Rae through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #311
    76 babies named Rae, its best rank.
  3. 1926
    Rae Allen born
    American actress
  4. 1961
    Rae Dawn Chong born
    Canadian-American actress
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, also used as a formal given name, mostly as a middle name.
Namesakes
  • Rae Dawn Chong · Canadian-American actress, born 1961
  • Rae Allen · American actress, 1926–2022
  • Rae Armantrout · American poet, born 1947
  • Rae Lil Black · Japanese former pornographic actress, born 1996
  • Rae Morris · British singer, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.