Raymond is an English and French name, that comes from the Germanic name Raginmund. It stands for ‘counseling protector’ and is composed of the elements ‘regin’ for ‘advice, counsel, decision’ and ‘munt’ for ‘protection’.
Raymond is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Raymond isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Raymond ranks 283. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Raymond. In total, there are currently 750,289 people – children, adults and seniors – named Raymond living in the United States, which is approximately 0.22 % of the entire population.
Raymond is an English and French name, that comes from the Germanic name Raginmund. It stands for ‘counseling protector’ and is composed of the elements ‘regin’ for ‘advice, counsel, decision’ and ‘munt’ for ‘protection’.
Raymond is also... a rare surname, first documented in Britain in 1086.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Raymond is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Raymond for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Raymond is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Raymond is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #14 Raymond easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1919.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Raymond was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Raymond is one of them. However, Raymond is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Rhode Island seem to particularly fancy this name – the 8,739 men called Raymond who live here are 1,39% of all male residents and push their name up to #14 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Rhode Island. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 750,289 people with the name Raymond. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Raymond on position 44 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Raymond has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Raymond and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Raymond, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Yoyo
Mouse
Orange
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Raymond
Raymond
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
Y
M
O
N
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
A
Y
M
O
N
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Raymond sounds like this:
