Raeven

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 4 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
4
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4867
4 babies

Raeven by the numbers

In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Raeven. In the US, 6 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 69 babies in 1993, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Raeven

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Raeven. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Ravendark-haired; from the bird name742 in the US (2017)
  • Rayvendark-haired; from the bird name raven; a respelling of Raven87 in the US (2017)
  • Raegen39 in the US (2017)
  • Raevyn36 in the US (2017)
  • Raeden17 in the US (2017)
  • Raiven9 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Raeven

Names that are said the same way as Raeven, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Raeven

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