Ray
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Ray
- A surname from a Middle English nickname meaning a king or a roe.
- A diminutive of Raymond, also used as a formal male given name.
- A diminutive of Rachel, more often spelled Rae.
[edit] Quotations
- 1980 Wright Morris, Plains Song, for Female Voices, Harper&Row, ISBN 0060130474, page 113:
- - , or Raymond if it happened to be a boy, choosing it in the hope that a name like Ray would make a boy's life easier.
- 2005 Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, William Morrow, ISBN 006054581X, page 12
- Although the name on his birth certificate was spelled "Ray", Ray said he was originally given the name "Rae" after Rae Williams, a cousin on his father's side.