Fun Facts About the Name Raeven
- 800 babies named Raeven: U.S. records list 800 babies given the name Raeven from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Raeven Mean?
Raeven is a modern spelling variant of the English given name Raven, and it means "raven" - the large dark-plumaged bird of the crow family. The word descends from Old English hræfn and Old Norse hrafn, both from a Proto-Germanic form reconstructed as *hrabnaz; Old High German hraban is a related form. The literal sense is just the bird's name, not a phrase or a compound of separate elements.
Symbolic readings that attach wisdom, memory, or omen to the raven come from the bird's role in myth and folklore, not from the word's etymology. The ae spelling in Raeven is a respelling of the same name and does not change the meaning.
Raeven Name History & Origins
The word for the raven has been part of English since the Old English period, when hræfn named the bird. In medieval England it also worked as a byname or nickname - for someone thought to resemble a raven, for example - and such bynames fed into the surname Raven, which appears in several spellings. In Norse sources the bird has a well-known place: the god Odin is accompanied by two ravens, Huginn and Muninn (usually translated "thought" and "memory"), and ravens figure in omens and battle imagery in Old Norse literature.
As a personal name, Raven is largely a modern usage, taken up in English-speaking countries well after the surname was established, and given to both girls and boys but more often to girls. Raeven is a later respelling of that given name, so its background is the background of Raven rather than a separate line of descent. The raven as a literary image - as in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" (1845) - belongs to the bird and the common noun, not to the origin of the personal name.
How Popular is the Name Raeven?
Raeven has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1993. Its best rank was #2,028 in 1993.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #9,948 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #14,828 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #10,963 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #11,030 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #9,409 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #11,175 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #7,341 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #15,501 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #12,623 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #11,625 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2014 | #10,009 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2013 | #10,834 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2012 | #10,267 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #13,098 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2010 | #13,189 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #10,505 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2008 | #11,411 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2007 | #10,652 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #6,547 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2004 | #7,742 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2003 | #5,365 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2002 | #4,255 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2001 | #4,088 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2000 | #3,640 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 1999 | #2,665 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 1998 | #2,793 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 1997 | #2,444 | 54 | 0.0031% |
| 1996 | #2,617 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 1995 | #3,342 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 1994 | #2,401 | 54 | 0.0030% |
| 1993 | #2,028 | 69 | 0.0038% |
| 1992 | #3,936 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 1991 | #4,300 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1990 | #4,481 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1989 | #9,425 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1988 | #13,320 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #10,885 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #10,514 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #9,018 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #8,937 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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