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Ras

Boys' name

Possibly level

Ras has been given to 396 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Ras, 2023

1 in 663,000

Ras over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ras: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly level

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ras means

Ras may mean “level”, associated with ras.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Various origins: * Borrowed from Czech Raš and Polish Raś, a pet form of various Slavic personal names * Borrowed from Spanish Ras, from ras (“level”); perhaps a topographic surname for someone who lived on flat land * Borrowed from French and Catalan Ras, from ras (“shorn, peeled, bare”), hence a topographic surname for someone who lived on a barren or razed area * Borrowed from Dutch Ras, nickname for a nimble person, from ras (“quick, swift”)

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ras (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ras is used in English.

Ras comes through Polish Raś and Catalan Ras.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 396 boys were recorded with the name Ras between 1886 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1915; its best national rank was #725 in 1890.

How common is Ras?

Ras had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ras sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ras. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ras was born before 1936 — so the typical Ras is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Ras rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (12)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#725
1890

Where Ras is used

Across 1910–2025, Ras was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,544,586 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ras has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ras around the world

Where Ras ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ras by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#725
1890
Peak year
1915
12 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
396
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ras

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ras

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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