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Raynard

Boys' name

Variant of Reynard

Raynard has been given to 3,061 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1962, with 123 recorded.

Babies named Raynard, 2023

1 in 663,000

Raynard 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raynard: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Reynard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raynard means

Raynard is a variant of Reynard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Raynard is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹeɪ.ˌnɑɹd/ and /ˈɹeɪ.ˌnɑːd/ for Raynard.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Raynard → Reynard. The family’s meaning is “fox”, recorded in English with the source elements renard.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Reynard.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,061 boys were recorded with the name Raynard between 1912 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 123 in 1962; its best national rank was #693 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Raynard?

Raynard 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 Raynard 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 Raynard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raynards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raynard was born before 1971 — so the typical Raynard is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,795
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1960s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (873).

Is Raynard 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 1962 (123)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#693
1962

Spellings of Raynard

Raynard is not the most common spelling — Maynard is, with 36.7% against Raynard's 7.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Raynard is used

Across 1910–2025, Raynard was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 120,297 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 25,000
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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. Raynard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raynard around the world

Where Raynard 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
    2010–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010

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

Raynard 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
#693
1962
Peak year
1962
123 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
3,061
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Raynard

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

RayfordRayyanRayquanRayshawnRayvonRayshonRashardKennardRaylenRayshardRayburnShepardRaymoneRaylandRaydenRaylanRaylonRaymonHaywardRayaanRaymundoRayhanBallardRayce

Names with a curve like Raynard

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Raynard, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PernellKerwinBrienTimmothyMitchStoneyBrittDerwinKraigGreggoryJeffereyReinaldo

Sibling names for Raynard

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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