Rae

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rae: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rae: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #244, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#244highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#823
1997	#789
1998	#737
1999	#842
2000	#1095
2001	#1025
2002	#1192
2003	#1383
2004	#1209
2005	#1165
2006	#1325
2007	#942
2008	#972
2009	#1083
2010	#1013
2011	#915
2012	#749
2013	#900
2014	#731
2015	#708
2016	#377
2017	#420
2018	#314
2019	#334
2020	#320
2021	#282
2022	#308
2023	#352
2024	#347

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #244 among girls in Scotland, #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #347 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #823 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Rae appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,827 births with the name.

Rae across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rae's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#2730 (2021)	#3688 (2024)	12 of 29	54 (1996–2024)	7 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#823 (1996)	#282 (2021)	#347 (2024)	29 of 29	1,827 (1996–2024)	168 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#337 (2024)	#337 (2024)	4 of 8	14 (2017–2024)	4 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#834 (2020)	#608 (2025)	#608 (2025)	3 of 6	11 (2020–2025)	5 (2025)

Rae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rae in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	113	4 of 10	28
2000s	222	10 of 10	22
2010s	790	10 of 10	79
2020sbusiest	702	5 of 10	140

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 140 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 66, from 56 to 122.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rae appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #244 in Scotland in 2024.

Rae's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#347	126	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#352	122	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#308	144	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#282	168	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#320	142	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#334	136	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#314	151	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#420	105	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#377	122	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#708	56	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#731	54	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#900	41	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#749	53	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#915	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1083	29	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#972	32	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#942	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1165	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1209	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1192	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1025	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1095	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#842	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#737	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#789	29	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#823	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#244	15	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#478	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #244, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 168 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Orin · #244, 29y
Matheus · #243, 27y
Ozzy · #243, 26y
Barney · #246, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Blaire · #244, 14y
Islay · #244, 26y
Orin · #244, 29y
Cailean · #243, 22y

Rae was ranked #244 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rae and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rae without appearing here.

Rae moved ahead of

Joakim Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4747 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2730 and #4789.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2730 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Rae

Rune Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #2228.
Aksel Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2870 and #4052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #3744 and #2837.
Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1192 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1383 and #799.
Harald Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #4991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #3254.

Moved the opposite way to Rae

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Rae

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rae went from #823 to #347 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #244 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rae

Rae at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rae across 4 official records

Rae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rae appears in

Popularity data

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Rae at a glance

Rae across 4 official records

Rae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rae appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rae and the names beside it

Rae moved ahead of

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