Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪ/Category:English 1-syllable words#RAECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#RAE
• Rhymes: -eɪCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪ#RAECategory:Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable#RAE
• Homophones: Re, Rea; ray, Ray, Wray (pane–pain merger); reCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#RAECategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#RAECategory:English links with manual fragments#RAE, Rhea (one pronunciation)Category:English links with redundant wikilinks#RAECategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#RAECategory:English links with manual fragments#RAECategory:English terms with homophones#RAE

Proper noun

RaeCategory:English lemmas#RAECategory:English proper nouns#RAECategory:English uncountable nouns#RAECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RAECategory:Pages with entries#RAECategory:Pages with 2 entries#RAE

1. A Scottish surname transferred from the nicknameCategory:English surnames#RAECategory:English surnames from nicknames#RAE. A variant of Roe.
2. A diminutive of the female given name RachelCategory:English given names#RAECategory:English female given names#RAECategory:English diminutives of female given names#RAE, 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.

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   • 2020 May 20, Mike Baker, “G.O.P. Voters Back QAnon Conspiracy Promoter for U.S. Senate”, in The New York Times‎, 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.

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3. Feminine form of Ray.
   • 1941, Ray Bradbury, “My Premature Autobiography”, in The American Scholar‎, 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.

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Anagrams

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

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑeˣ/, [ˈrɑ̝e̞(ʔ)]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#RAECategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#RAE
• Rhymes: -ɑeCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑe#RAECategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑe/2 syllables#RAE
• Syllabification^(key): Ra‧e
• Hyphenation^(key): Rae

Proper noun

RaeCategory:Finnish lemmas#RAECategory:Finnish proper nouns#RAECategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#RAECategory:Pages with entries#RAECategory:Pages with 2 entries#RAE

1. a Finnish surnameCategory:Finnish surnames#RAE

References