Ráy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (con~) eardrum, earhole
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ráy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 79th most common surname.
- INIndia1 in 387(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- 1 in 387 (inferred from the name graph)
3,425,366 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ray in IN India, US United States, AR Argentina and 2 more.
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)(con~) eardrum, earhole
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ráy 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 3,425,366 | 1 in 387 | 3.4M | Ray | 58 |
| US United States | — | 133,171 | 1 in 2.5K | 133K | Ray | 316 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 345 | 1 in 24K | 345 | — | 11 |
| AR Argentina | — | 260 | 1 in 175K | 260 | Ray | 60 |
| ES Spain | — | 200 | 1 in 250K | 216 | Ray | 63 |
| FI Finland | — | 151 | 1 in 37K | 347 | — | 3 |
| GD Grenada | — | 18 | 1 in 6.3K | 34 | — | — |
| CU Cuba | #79 | — | — | — | Ray | 22 |
3,425,366 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ráy mean, and where does it come from?
- (con~) eardrum, earhole Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ráy a male or female name?
- Ráy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ráy have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.4 million people named Ráy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ray.
- Where is Ráy most common?
- Ráy is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 387 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ráy?
- In India, the national register counted 3,425,366 people named Ráy, about 1 in 387 residents.
- How common is Ráy compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Ráy is the 79th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A1yThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ráy” — the 79th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.