Ràyes

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ràyes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Monmouths. variant of Ray with post-medieval excrescent -s. Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 167K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 541K
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

172 people

Sources
103 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 167K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rayes in TN Tunisia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Monmouths. variant of Ray with post-medieval excrescent -s. Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ràyes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ràyes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1721 in 1.2M172——
AR Argentina841 in 541K84——
SE Sweden611 in 167K61—1
ES Spain111 in 4.5M11—3
TN Tunisia≈9 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Rayes4
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

172 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ràyes under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ràyes mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Monmouths. variant of Ray with post-medieval excrescent -s. Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
Is Ràyes a male or female name?
Ràyes is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ràyes have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 172 people named Ràyes, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ràyes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ràyes is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 167 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ràyes?
In Brazil, the national register counted 172 people named Ràyes, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ràyes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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