Rayford
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Rayford by the numbers
Rayford was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 124 babies in 1937, so it is a 1930s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Rayford
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 Rayford. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Radfordred ford; ford with reeds5 in the US (2017)
- Raymondwise protector or counsel warrior1,192 in the US (2017)
- Raynorwarrior; a form of Rayner23 in the US (2017)
- Redfordred ford; a place name20 in the US (2017)
- Rexfordford of the king5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Raynardstrong counselor; a form of Reynard10 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Rayford
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