Raymon
Masculine · “counsel and protection”
Raymon is Raymond with the d worn off, which is how the name is actually said in fast English, written down. Behind it are two Germanic words that Norman French carried into England, and a long history of counts in Provence and Toulouse who made it a southern French name before it was ever an English one.
How old is the name Raymon?
Raymon first appears in US birth records in 1889 — 136 years ago. The typical Raymon alive today was born around 1950, making them about 75 years old. About 4,300 people named Raymon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Raymon most popular?
Raymon peaked in 1934, reaching #481 nationally. Today it ranks #4707, 4,226 places below that high. See the whole 1934 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Raginmund to Raymon
The story of Raymon
The name was Germanic before it was French, carried into Gaul by Frankish and Visigothic settlers and worn by a long line of counts of Toulouse and Barcelona. The Normans took it to England after 1066, where it settled as Raymond, and Spanish made it Ramon. The final d had already gone quiet in English speech long before American families began writing the name without it, and Raymon and Raymond have run alongside each other in American records for well over a century.
Meaning
counsel and protection
Germanic ragin, counsel or advice, joined to mund, protection or the hand that protects. The same mund closes Edmund and Osmond.
How the name formed
- Raginmund
- Raimund
- Raimond
- Raymond
- Raymon
Related forms: Ramón · Raymond · Raimondo · Raimund · Ramon · Raimundo
Pronouncing Raymon
RAY-mun
Two syllables, stress in front. It sounds identical to Raymond in ordinary speech, which is the reason the spelling exists at all.
Nicknames for Raymon
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
- 1889
- Most boys named
- 1926145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #481reached in 1934
- Change vs 2022
- −4.5%21 in 2025, from 22
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.
Raymon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ramón in Spanish — same name
- Raymond in French — same name
- Raimondo in Italian — same name
- Raimund in German — same name
- Ramon in Catalan — same name
- Raimundo in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Michigan.
Raymons among us
people named Raymon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 81,337 born in 2025 was named Raymon
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 Rosario test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raymon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rosario climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rosario's path sketches the road Raymon is walking now.
Raymon 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
Raymon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Raymon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ray is one of the most comfortable short forms in English and comes free with the name.
- It bridges English and Spanish households without changing its sound.
- It has a documented record in American use going back well over a century.
- Almost everyone will add the d; the correction will be lifelong and small.
- Raymond reads as the formal version, so the shorter spelling can look like an abbreviation on a document.
- It belongs to a generation of names that is only now beginning to come back.
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Frequently asked
- How many Raymons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,300 people named Raymon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Raymon in 2025?
- Raymon ranks #4707 among US boy names in 2025, with 21 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Raymon?
- About 1 in every 81,337 US boys born in 2025 was named Raymon — 21 in all.
- Will my child share the name Raymon with classmates?
- Raymon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Raymon
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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