Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Raven
/RAY · ven/
Meaning
“Old English hraefn”
Old English hraefn, the black bird associated with prophecy and intelligence across Norse, Celtic, and Native American traditions; the name carries both gothic darkness and natural power.
Nicknames
rav
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Peaked in the US in the late 1990s and 2000s; starting to feel like a Y2K pop-culture artifact.
The cultural moment.
Rose sharply in the US in the mid-1990s partly via pop culture; declining since the 2010s but still in regular use.