Rae

Rae

1. A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname. A variant of Roe.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, also used as a formal given name, mostly as a middle name.
   • 1965, Lewis Yablonsky, The Tunnel Back: Synamon, Macmillan, page 204:

     CHUCK. Joyce Mathews! I see and this girl's name is Rae Edwards. What does Rae stand for?
     CHRIS. Rae, Rae!
     CHUCK. Rachel? That's what I'm trying to find out; Sugar Ray? Rae doesn't mean too much to me. Hooray, Sugar Ray, etc. So her name is Rachael H? I see.

3. A male given name; possible variant of Ray.
   • 2005, Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 12:

     Although the name on his birth certificate was spelled "Ray", Ray said he was originally given the name "Rae" after Rae Williams, a cousin on his father's side.

• 'ear, ARE, Aer, EAR, ERA, REA, Rea, aer-, are, aër-, ear, era, rea

< rae

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑeˣ/, [ˈrɑ̝e̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑe
• Syllabification^(key): Ra‧e

Rae

1. a Finnish surname

• Rae is the 3854^th (tied with 19 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 196 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.