Ray

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Singular Ray

Plural -

Ray

1. A surname from a Middle English nickname meaning a king or a roe.
2. A diminutive of Raymond, also used as a formal male given name.
3. 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.