Entry № 8575 · English origin

Raven Raven — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAY-ven /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The raven bird (Raven-Symoné + Edgar Allan Poe's poem)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "the raven bird (raven-symoné + edgar allan poe's poem)".

Raven is from the Old English hræfn — the large black corvid sacred in many world mythologies (Norse Huginn and Muninn, the ravens of Odin; the raven that fed Elijah; Pacific Northwest Indigenous trickster). Raven Goodwin — American actress (Being Mary Jane).

The raven bird.

The name in its native script.

Raven
Transliteration
Raven
Pronunciation
/ ˈreɪ.vən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Raven stands.

Raven does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ravens before her.

Real people
Raven-Symoné
American actress.
born 1985
Raven Wilkinson
First Black professional ballerina.
1935 – 2018
Raven Goodwin
American actress.
born 1992
In fiction
Raven Baxter
That's So Raven.
2003
The Raven
Poe's narrative poem.
1845

Names connected to Raven.

The number behind Raven.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Raven reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.