Raymond

Raymond is the 894th most common surname in the United States, shared by 38,375 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,789.

By the numbers

People: 38,375
Rank: 894th
How common: 1 in 7,789
Per 100,000: 12.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Old French Raimund, from Frankish *Raginmund, from Proto-Germanic *Raginamunduz, composed. Compare the first element in Reginald, Reynold, Ronald; the second element can be found in cognates Edmund, Sigmund, Osmond.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Raymond

Eric S. Raymond (born 1957)American programmer & open source advocate
Lisa Raymond (born 1973)American tennis player
Louis Raymond (1895–1962)South African tennis player
Alex Raymond (1909–1956)American comic strip artist and creator of Flash Gordon
Jade Raymond (born 1975)Canadian video game executive
Roy Raymond (1947–1993)American businessman, founder of Victoria's Secret
Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820–1869)American journalist and politician
Gene Raymond (1908–1998)actor, singer, composer, producer, director

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

Surnames like Raymond

Also a first name

Raymond has been given to 783,311 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. 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.