Entry № 8435 · English origin

Rae Rae — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Ewe / sun ray (Issa Rae, HBO Insecure)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "ewe / sun ray (issa rae, hbo insecure)".

Rae is from the Hebrew rāḥēl (ewe — feminine of Rachel) or the Old English rǣ (a ray of light). Rae Sutton — Sutton Foster's daughter (born 2017).

Ewe / sun ray.

The name in its native script.

Rae
Transliteration
Rae
Pronunciation
/ reɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rae stands.

Rae does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Raes before her.

Real people
Issa Rae
American HBO Insecure creator.
born 1985
Rae Dawn Chong
Canadian-American actress.
born 1961
In fiction
Rae
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Rae.

The number behind Rae.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rae reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.