Rae

Rae is the 6,363rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,142 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 58,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,142
Rank: 6,363rd
How common: 1 in 58,100
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rae described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rae

Issa Rae (born 1985)American actress, writer and producer
Corinne Bailey Rae (born 1979)British singer
Charlotte Rae (1926–2018)American actress
John Rae (1813–1893)Scottish explorer
Bob Rae (born 1948)21st Premier of Ontario
Jocelyn Rae (born 1991)British tennis player
Daria Rae (born 1993)American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Alexa Rae (born 1980)pornographic performer

People named Rae with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rae

Rael

Also a first name

Rae has been given to 24,420 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.