What is Ray a nickname for?

What is Ray a nickname for?

Ray might still be short for Raymond or a more unusual formal name such as Rainier or Rayford, but it can also stand on its own.

What are names for Ray?

Here is a collection of baby boy names beginning with ‘Ray’.

• Ray. The name Ray has an English origin, and the meaning of the name is ‘counsel protection’.
• Rayan. The name Rayan has an Arabic origin, and it means ‘luxuriant’, ‘watered’, or ‘plentiful’.
• Rayansh.
• Rayaun.
• Rayburn.
• Rayce.
• Raychard.
• Rayden.

Is Ray Ray a name?

Short form of Raymond, which is of Norman origin, from the German ragin, meaning “advice” or “decision” and mund, meaning “protector”.

What is the female version of Ray?

Rae (given name)

Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Other names
Related names	Rachel, Ray, Raquel, Raphael

Is Ray a black name?

The race and Hispanic origin distribution of the people with the name RAYMOND is 75.7% White, 8.9% Hispanic origin, 10.6% Black, 2.9% Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.4% Two or More Races, and 0.6% American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Is Ray a boy or girl?

▼ as a girls’ name (also used more generally as boys’ name Ray) is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Ray is “ewe”. Short form of Rachel; variant spelling of Rae.

Is Ray a popular name?

Since 1880 up to 2018, the name “Ray” was recorded 207,863 times in the SSA public database. Using the UN World Population Prospects for 2019, that’s more than enough Rays to occupy the country of Samoa with an estimated population of 198,909. The name first appeared in the year 1880 and given to 150 newborn babies.

Is Ray a family name?

The saga of the name Ray begins with a Strathclyde-Briton family in the ancient Scottish/English Borderlands. It is a name for a person known as a timid or shy person. Further research revealed that the name is derived from the Old English word ray, that referred to a roe or female deer.

Is Ray an Italian last name?

In other cases, the surname is of Ashkenazic Jewish origin. In other cases, the surname may have originated as locative name, derived from the Old French raier, meaning “to gush, stream, or pour”. In other cases, the surname is a variant of Indian surname Rai.

Is Ray a unisex name?

The name Ray is a girl’s name. Most female Rays used to spell their names Rae, but now the Ray Charles, ray-of-sunshine way is cool for both genders.