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    The surname Raye

    A surname, carried by 1,625 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R000

    Raye: #17,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Raye #17,379, 1,625 people Raye: #17,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Raye #17,379, 1,625 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Raye is more common than 89.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,625 people named Raye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,997 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,599.

    #17,379
    rank among US surnames
    1,625
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #16,540)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,379Tarnowski1,625189,997
    #17,385Brasel1,624190,114

    Who is named Raye

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    63% of people named Raye identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 63%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Raye

    Raye has the Soundex code R000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R000.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Raye?
    1,625 people in the United States had the surname Raye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,997 Americans. It ranked 17,379th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Raye?
    In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Raye identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Raye getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,599 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,625 in 2010, up 1.6%.