Raiven as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Raiven

What is the meaning of the name Raiven ?

The baby name Raiven is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced RAY-vən.

Raiven is English, Old English, Proto-Germanic in Origin.

Raiven is a late modern English respelling of Raven, the bird name. The English noun continues Old English hræfn, with recorded spellings such as hrefn and hræfn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz, the source also of Old Norse hrafn and Old High German raban. Its literal sense is simply raven, the large black corvid; the inserted i belongs to contemporary name styling rather than to the word’s older morphology.

As a forename, Raven grew in English-speaking use during the later twentieth century, helped by nature-name fashion and by the bird’s presence in folklore, Norse myth, and Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven. Raiven is rarer and chiefly American; U.S. Social Security data first show it in the 1990s, with a small peak in 1997. Variant spellings include Rayven and Ravyn, and census material indicates a strongly female tilt.