Rayes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present subjunctive of rayar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹeɪiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rayes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 346K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 23K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 25K
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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present subjunctive of rayar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rayes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Rayes | 66 |
| US United States | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 346K | 107 | Rayes | 206 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Rayes | 38 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Rayes | 17 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Rayes | 11 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Rayes | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 172 | 1 in 1.2M | 172 | — | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Rayes | 19 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #268 | — | — | — | Rayes | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rayes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of rayer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Douglas L. Rayesb. 1952USUnited States District Judge
- Alain Rayesb. 1971CACanadian politician
- Roger RayesUSbasketball player
- Julie RayesFRresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 172 | #41,551 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rayes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of rayar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rayes?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹeɪiz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rayes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Rayes in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rayes.
- How common is the name Rayes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 172 people named Rayes, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Rayes compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Rayes is the 268th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rayesThe 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, “Rayes” — the 268th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.