Raven
The girl's name Raven has been in the national records since 1921, with 48,253 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 404th. About 47,000 Ravens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Raven boys named Raven
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 48,253
- Estimated living today
- 47,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 139th
- Rank in 2025
- 404th
- First recorded
- 1921
- Girls / boys
- 44,920 / 3,333
How old the living Ravens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 48,253 babies given the name since 1921, about 47,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 170 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ravens
- Raven-Symoné (born 1985)American actress, singer, and songwriter
- Raven (born 1964)American professional wrestler, actor and podcaster
- Raven Saunders (born 1996)American shot putter
- Raven Klaasen (born 1982)South African tennis player
- Raven Goodwin (born 1992)American actress
- Raven Alexis (1987–2022)American pornographic actress
People named Raven with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Raven is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Raven is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.4×), Mississippi (2.2×), Alabama (2.0×), Tennessee (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Raven peaked:
Raven elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Raven | 1,303 | 419th |
| France girls | Raven | 235 | 1,205th |
| England and Wales boys | Raven | 199 | 1,363rd |
| Belgium boys | Raven | 164 | 468th |
| France boys | Raven | 130 | 2,726th |
| Scotland girls | Raven | 66 | 365th |
| Belgium girls | Raven | 24 | 1,062nd |
| Ireland girls | Raven | 23 | 661st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Raven | 6 | 418th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Raven: rank by region
In 2024, Raven was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Raven | 398 | 14 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Raven appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (162nd) and Province of East Flanders (259th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Raven among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Raven | 7 | 16 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Raven against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.