• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: Re, Rea; ray, Ray, Wray (pane–pain merger); re, Rhea (one pronunciation)

Rae

1. A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname. A variant of Roe.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, also used as a formal given name, mostly as a middle name.
   • 1965, Lewis Yablonsky, The Tunnel Back: Synamon, Macmillan, page 204:

     CHUCK. Joyce Mathews! I see and this girl's name is Rae Edwards. What does Rae stand for?
     CHRIS. Rae, Rae!
     CHUCK. Rachel? That's what I'm trying to find out; Sugar Ray? Rae doesn't mean too much to me. Hooray, Sugar Ray, etc. So her name is Rachael H? I see.

   • 2020 May 20, Mike Baker, “G.O.P. Voters Back QAnon Conspiracy Promoter for U.S. Senate”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 May 2020:

     Jo Rae Perkins was carrying about 50 percent of the vote in Oregon’s primary as of Wednesday afternoon, vanquishing three other Republican candidates to become the party’s nominee for the seat currently held by Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat.

3. Feminine form of Ray.
   • 1941, Ray Bradbury, “My Premature Autobiography”, in The American Scholar‎^[2], Phi Beta Kappa, published 2020:

     My first name is Ray because of a distant relative, a woman, whose name was Rae. I was named for her and spelled my name Rae until I was old enough to realize I was being mocked, when I changed it to the masculine form Ray.

• 'ear, Åre, ear, Rea, rea, EAR, REA, aer-, A.R.E., ReA, ARE, aër-, Are, Aer, ERA, era, are

From rae, mainly adopted as a surname during the Fennicization of surnames at the turn of the 20th century, but possibly also from place names.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑeˣ/, [ˈrɑ̝e̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑe
• Syllabification^(key): Ra‧e
• Hyphenation^(key): Rae

Rae

1. a Finnish surname

• The surname Rae belongs to 195 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.