Raeven
Feminine · “Old English hraefn”
The raven is the first bird in the Bible and it does not come back. Noah sends it out and it goes to and fro until the waters dry; the dove is sent afterwards and returns with the olive leaf. The raven gets the first flight and none of the credit.
How old is the name Raeven?
Raeven first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Raeven alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 800 people named Raeven are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Raeven most popular?
Raeven peaked in 1993, reaching #2012 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 7,445 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
Where it comes from
From hraefn to Raeven
The story of Raeven
Ravens carry a great deal of freight in northern European tradition. Odin has two, Huginn and Muninn, thought and memory, who fly out over the world each day and report back, and the Norse raven banner was a battle standard. The Tower of London keeps ravens on the strength of a superstition first recorded in the nineteenth century. In Genesis the raven is released from the ark first and simply goes back and forth, which commentators have read as everything from failure to independence. The bird itself is among the most intelligent animals studied: ravens make tools, recognize individual humans for years, and appear to plan for future events, which is rare outside primates. The Old English word gave a personal name and several surnames long before it became a modern given name.
Meaning
Old English hraefn, a raven
Raeven is a respelling of Raven, from Old English hraefn, the bird, a word that also served as a personal name and a surname in Old English and Norse. The ae spelling gestures at the Old English form without reproducing it. The peak of this spelling is 1993.
How the name formed
- hraefn
- Raven
- Raeven
Related forms: Raven · Ravyn
Pronouncing Raeven
RAY-ven
Two syllables, stress on the first. Raeven and Raven are homophones; the ae is a decorative spelling of the same vowel.
Nicknames for Raeven
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 199369 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2012reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- +66.7%10 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Raeven in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Raven in English — spelling variant
- Ravyn in English — spelling variant
Raevens among us
people named Raeven are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Raeven
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Aleida test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raeven's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aleida climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aleida's path sketches the road Raeven is walking now.
Raeven sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Raeven beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Raeven in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Rae works as a short form and is a name in its own right.
- The bird behind it is vivid and widely admired.
- Two syllables with a clear first-syllable stress.
- Raven is the standard spelling.
- The ae adds a letter without adding a sound.
- The bird carries dark associations for some readers.
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Feminine · #9457 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Raevens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Raeven are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Raeven in 2025?
- Raeven ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Raeven?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Raeven — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Raeven with classmates?
- Raeven will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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