LaRay
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
LaRay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
- USUnited States1 in 480K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 185K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 277K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 185K (inferred from the name graph)
693 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
LaRay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 693 | 1 in 480K | 352 | LaRay | 171 |
| GH Ghana | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | LaRay | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | LaRay | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 731K | — | LaRay | 7 |
| BR Brazil | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 49 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | LaRay | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 429K | — | LaRay | 1 |
693 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling laray. 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)
LaRay is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, highness of the pitch of voice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Quechua, to split, to crack, to break
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 49 | #106,268 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name LaRay mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is LaRay a male or female name?
- LaRay 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 LaRay have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 693 people named LaRay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled LaRay.
- How common is the name LaRay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 693 people named LaRay in 2020, about 1 in 480 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/larayThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “LaRay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.