Raymond
From Germanic *ragin*, counsel, and *mund*, protection: a wise protector. In Poland the name stays rare in its western spelling, carried by only about 200 men and given to almost no boys today.
Raymond Pronunciation
Raymond is pronounced rah-IH-mont (/raˈɨmɔnt/).
What Raymond means
Where Raymond comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Raymond grows from Germanic roots: from ragin, meaning counsel or advice, joined to mund, protection. Put together, the name reads as wise protector, the counsel that guards. It traveled west with the Normans and settled comfortably in English and French, where it became Raymond on both sides of the Channel.
The name has real bearers to point to. Saint Raymond of Penyafort, a Catalan friar and canon lawyer of the thirteenth century, is honored on the seventh of January, and lawyers still keep his day. Medieval counts of Toulouse carried the name too, so it sat close to power for a long stretch of the Middle Ages.
What does it mean to hold a name built from counsel and protection? A Polish child written down as Rajmund in a school register carries the same two ideas, folded into one word. The sense is old and plain: mądry opiekun, a wise protector. That meaning is not a later gloss. It sits in the parts themselves, ragin and mund, the advice that shields.
How many people are named Raymond
1 in 99749 men in Poland is named Raymond. 214 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2137 among male names.
Raymond's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Raymond as a middle name
Raymond is a first name for 214 men in Poland and a middle name for another 192, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 492nd, between Erich (192) and Tristan (192).
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#490 Claude192
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#491 Erich192
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#492 Raymond192
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#493 Tristan192
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#494 Justin191