Raymond

A male given name: from Germanic words meaning “counsel” and “protection.”.

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Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic Raginmund or Reginmund. "Ragin" (Old German) and "regin" (Gothic) meant "counsel." The Old High German "mund" originally meant "hand," but came to mean "protection." This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin.
Despite the German and French origins of the English name, some of its early uses in English documents appear in Latinized form. As a surname, its first recorded appearance in Britain appeared in 1086, during the reign of William the Conqueror, in the Domesday Book, with a reference to Giraldus Reimundus.
The most commonly used names for baby boys based on "Ragin" in 2009 were, in descending order, Raymond, Ramiro, Rayner, Rein, Reingard, Reynard, and Reynold. Its many other variants include Raiment, Raimo, Raimond, Raimondi, Raimondo, Raimund, Raimundo, Ramon, Ramón, Ramond, Ramondelli, Ramondenc, Ramondi, Ramondini, Ramondino, Ramondo, Ramondou, Ramonenc, Ramonic, Ramundi, Rayment, Raymonenc, Raymonencq, Raymont, Raymund, Redmond, Redmonds, Reim, Reimund, Reinmund, Rémon, Rémond, Remondeau, Remondon, Rémont, Reymond, Rimondi, and Rimondini.

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Masc. proper name, from Old French Raimund, from Frankish *Raginmund "counsel-protection" or "might-protection," from ragin "counsel, might" + mund "hand, protection" (cognate with Old High German munt, Old English mund, second element in Edmund, Sigismund, etc.), from PIE root *man- (2) "hand."

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Advice, decision protector. Combine of ragin (advice) and mund (protector).

Roy, Raginmund, Armando, Reginmund, Ray

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Raymond Burr	1917	Actor
2	Raymond Robinson	1910	American amputee
3	Raymond Cruz	1961	American actor
4	Raymond Chandler	1888	Novelist, screenwriter
5	Raymond Washington	1953	American gang member
6	Raymond Carver	1938	American short story author and poet
7	Raymond Briggs	1934	English cartoonist, illustrator, and writer
8	Raymond Massey	1896	Actor
9	Raymond Felton	1984	American basketball player
10	Raymond van Barneveld	1967	Dutch professional darts player
11	Raymond Ochoa	2001	American actor
12	Raymond T. Odierno	1954	United States Army general
13	Raymond Lam	1979	Hong Kong actor and singer
14	Raymond J. Barry	1939	American film, television and stage actor
15	Raymond Bailey	1904	Actor
16	Raymond A. Spruance	1886	United States admiral
17	Raymond Leo Burke	1948	US cardinal
18	Raymond S. Persi	1975	Director
19	Raymond E. Feist	1945	Novelist
20	Raymond Kelly	1941	Commissioner of the New York City Police Department
21	Raymond Kopa	1931	French footballer
22	Eric S. Raymond	1957	American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement
23	Jade Raymond	1975	Canadian television personality
24	Raymond Blanc	1949	French chef
25	Raymond A. Thomas	1958	United States general
26	Raymond Loewy	1893	Industrial designer
27	Raymond Poincaré	1860	10th President of the French Republic
28	Raymond Cattell	1905	Psychologist
29	Raymond Bonham Carter	1929	British banker
30	Raymond Williams	1921	Philosopher
31	Raymond Allen Davis incident	1974	American diplomat
32	Raymond Chow	1927	Film producer
33	Raymond Domenech	1952	French footballer
34	Raymond Pettibon	1957	American artist
35	Raymond Chow Kwok Cheung	1960	American mobster
36	Raymond Daniels	1980	Martial artist
37	Raymond Floyd	1942	American golfer
38	Raymond Langston		CSI character
39	Gene Raymond	1908	Actor, singer, composer, producer, director
40	Raymond Ebanks	1969	Finnish musician
41	Raymond Vahan Damadian	1936	American scientist and inventor
42	Raymond St. Jacques	1930	American actor
43	Raymond Smullyan	1919	American mathematician
44	Raymond Berry	1933	American football player and coach
45	Raymond J. Lane	1946	American businessman
46	Raymond Aron	1905	French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist
47	Raymond F. Chandler	1962	US Army soldier
48	Raymond Patriarca Jr.	1945
49	Lee Raymond	1938	American chemical engineer
50	Raymond Moody	1944	American psychologist
51	Raymond Nonnatus	1204	Saint from Catalonia in Spain
52	Raymond Hamilton	1913	American gangster
53	Lisa Raymond	1973	American tennis player
54	Raymond Scott	1908	American musician
55	Raymond Bagatsing	1967	Filipino actor
56	Henry Jarvis Raymond	1820	American politician
57	Gary Raymond	1935	British actor
58	Raymond Wong Ho-yin	1975	Hong Kong actor
59	Raymond Gutierrez	1984	Filipino actor
60	Raymond Franz	1922	American Jehovah's Witness leader
61	Raymond Benson	1955	American short story writer and novelist
62	Raymond Queneau	1903	French poet
63	Raymond Arroyo	1970	American journalist
64	Raymond Townsend	1955	American professional basketball player
65	Raymond Hill	1933	American musician
66	Alex Raymond	1909	Comic strip artist and creator of Flash Gordon
67	Raymond Herrera	1972	American musician
68	Mason Raymond	1985	Canadian ice hockey player
69	Raymond Rougeau	1955	Canadian wrestler
70	Raymond E. Brown	1928	American biblical scholar
71	Raymond Flynn	1939	American politician
72	Raymond Dart	1893	Australian anatomist and anthropologist
73	Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse	1045	Occitan noble
74	Raymond Ackerman	1931	Businessman
75	Raymond Caine
76	Paula Raymond	1924	American actress
77	Raymond Poulidor	1936	Road bicycle racer
78	Raymond Gosling	1926	British physicist
79	Raymond Kethledge	1966	U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
80	Raymond Huntley	1904	Actor
81	Saint Raymond	1995	English singer-songwriter
82	Bill Raymond		American actor
83	Raymond Reddington		Raymond Reddington
84	Raymond Gilmour	1959	Irish spy
85	Raymond Hood	1881	American architect
86	Raymond Baxter	1922	British television presenter
87	Raymond Plaza	1932	French bicycle racer
88	Ray Rowe	1984	American wrestler
89	Raymond Arrieta	1965	Puerto Rican entertainer
90	Raymond Ablack	1989
91	Raymond Roussel	1877	French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast
92	Raymond Sackler		American physician
93	Janice Raymond	1943	American writer
94	Raymond Gruender	1963	American judge
95	Ray Donovan	1930	American politician
96	Raymond Verheijen	1971	Dutch footballer coach
97	Raymond Bessone	1911	British hairdresser
98	Paul Raymond	1945	English keyboardist/guitarist
99	Raymond Lesniak	1946	American politician
100	Raymond Conner		American entrepreneur
101	Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith	1952	British earl
102	Raymond Khoury	1960	Screenwriter, novelist
103	Raymond Belle	1939	French soldier and firefighter
104	Raymond Buckland	1934	English American author and Wiccan
105	Raymond Almazan	1989	Basketball player
106	Raymond Buckley	1959	American politician
107	Raymond Goethals	1921	Belgian footballer
108	Raymond Voß	1952
109	Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse	1156	Count of Toulouse
110	Raymond van Schoor	1990	Namibian cricketer
111	Raymond Dokpesi	1951	Nigerian media executive
112	Raymond of Penyafort	1175	Dominican Master General and archbishop and saint
113	Aileen Raymond	1910	British actress
114	Raymond Radiguet	1903	French writer
115	Raymond Barre	1924	French politician
116	Raymond Kwok	1952	Hong Kong businessman
117	Raymond Laflamme	1960	Canadian academic
118	Raymond Collishaw	1893	Royal Air Force air marshal
119	Raymond Ibrahim	1973	Librarian
120	Raymond Wong	1946	Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, screenwriter and presenter
121	Raymond Hatton	1887	American silent film actor
122	Raymond of Burgundy	1070	Lord of Galicia
123	Raymond L.S. Patriarca	1908	American mob boss
124	Raymond Leenders	1951	Dutch politician (1951-2003)
125	Antonin Raymond	1888	Czech architect
126	Raymond Asquith	1878	English barrister
127	Raymond Duchamp-Villon	1876	French sculptor
128	Raymond Mhlaba	1920	Anti-apartheid activist and politician from South Africa
129	Raymond Parks	1914	NASCAR team owner
130	Raymond Westerling	1919	Dutch military commander
131	Raymond Francis	1911	Actor
132	Raymond of Poitiers	1115	Prince of Antioch
133	Ronnie Raymond	1946	British actor
134	Raymond Hunthausen	1921	Catholic bishop
135	Raymond III, Count of Tripoli	1140	Count of Tripoli
136	Raymond Davis Jr.	1914	American scientist
137	Raymond Moore	1946	South African tennis player
138	Raymond Lauchengco	1964	Filipino actor and singer
139	Ray Ventrone	1982	American football player
140	Raymond Lindeman	1915	American ecologist
141	Raymond Lee Harvey	1944	American failed assassin
142	Louise Raymond
143	Raymond Lim	1959	Singaporean politician
144	Raymond McCreesh	1957	IRA Member
145	Raymond Firth	1901	Ethnologist from New Zealand
146	Irene Raymond
147	Raymond Tallis	1946	British philosopher
148	Raymond Unwin	1863	British engineer, architect and town planner
149	Raymond Geuss	1946	British philosopher
150	Raymond Arthur Palmer	1910	American editor and science fiction author
151	Simon Raymond
152	Raymond O. Barton	1889	United States general
153	Raymond Keene	1948	English chess player, chess arbiter, chess organiser, chess journalist and author
154	Raymond Loyer	1916	French actor
155	Raymond F. Boyce	1947	American computer scientist
156	Terry Raymond
157	Raymond McCartney	1954	Northern Irish politician
158	Cyril Raymond	1899	British actor
159	Raymond P. Shafer	1917	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
160	Brittany Raymond	1995
161	Raymond Serra	1936	American actor
162	Raymond Louis Kennedy	1946	American musician
163	Raymond Aubrac	1914	French resistance leader
164	Raymond Clayborn	1955	American football player
165	Raymond Cho	1936	Canadian politician
166	Raymond Gunemba	1986	Papua New Guinean association football player
167	Raymond T. Chen	1968	United States Circuit Judge
168	Raymond Lohier	1965	American judge
169	Raymond Marcillac	1917	French journalist
170	John W. Raymond		United States Air Force general
171	Raymond Froggatt	1941	British singer
172	Raymond Walburn	1887	Actor
173	Raymond Roger Trencavel	1185	Occitan noble
174	Derek Raymond	1931	English crime writer
175	Raymond Forchion		American actor
176	Raymond J. Smith	1930	American editor
177	Raymond Pellegrin	1925	Actor
178	Raymond J. Bowman	1924	American soldier
179	Raymond H. Geist	1885
180	Raymond Edmunds	1944	Australian murderer
181	Raymond Depardon	1942	French photojournalist
182	George Lansing Raymond	1839	American philosopher
183	Raymond Ceulemans	1937	Billiards player
184	Raymond Corbett Shannon	1894	American entomologist
185	Raymond Lewis	1952	American basketball player
186	Raymond Acevedo	1971	Singer
187	Raymond Moley	1886	American presidential advisor
188	Roy Raymond
189	Raymond Chester	1948	American football player
190	Dave Raymond	1972	American sportscaster
191	Raymond Harold Sawkins	1923	British writer
192	Raymond Towler	1957	American wrongly convicted
193	Raymond Acquaviva	1946	French actor
194	Tubby Raymond	1926	American football player and coach
195	Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse	1197	Occitan noble
196	Raymond C. Fisher	1939	United States Circuit Judge
197	Raymond D. Mindlin	1906	American mechanician (1906-1987)
198	Raymond Moriyama	1929	Architect and university chancellor
199	Raymond Wong Ying-wah	1968	Hong Kong composer
200	Raymond Carr	1919	British historian