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Ray m

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Male Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Ray f for the female version.

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Short form of English names beginning with Ray- (see RAGN) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Rae ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Rai ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Swedish
Ray ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Rey ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Raysson Iceland

Female

Raysdóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see RAGN (name element)

Cognates

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ray
Genitive: Rays
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ray
Genitive: Rayn
Partitive: Rayta / Raytä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Ray
Accusative: Ray
Dative: Ray
Genitive: Rays
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ray
Genitive: Rays
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ray
Genitive: Rays

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 249 people were named Ray m (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
205 619 8 47 197 572
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 301
n.a.
 16
n.a.
 285
Denmark Denmark[9]
38
n.a.
 3
n.a.
 35
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
2 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
85
n.a.
 4
n.a.
 81
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ray.


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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