Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (Raginmund) or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (Reginmund). Ragin (Gothic) and regin (Old German) meant "counsel". The Old High German mund originally meant "hand", but came to mean "protection". This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin. Alternatively, the name can also be derived from Germanic Hraidmund, the first element being Hraid, possibly meaning "fame" (compare Hrod, found in names such as Robert, Roderick, Rudolph, Roland, Rodney and Roger) and mund meaning "protector". Despite the German and French origins of the English name, some of its early uses in English documents appear in Latinized form. As a surname, its first recorded appearance in Britain appeared in 1086, during the reign of William the Conqueror, in the Domesday Book, with a reference to Giraldus Reimundus. The most commonly used names for baby boys based on "Ragin" in 2009 were, in descending order, Raymond, Ramiro, Rayner, Rein, Reingard, Reynard, and Reynold. Its many other variants include Raiment, Raimo, Raimond, Raimondi, Raimondo, Raimund, Raimundo, Ramon, Ramón, Ramond, Ramondelli, Ramondenc, Ramondi, Ramondini, Ramondino, Ramondo, Ramondou, Ramonenc, Ramonic, Ramundi, Rayment, Raymonenc, Raymonencq, Raymont, Raymund, Redmond, Redmonds, Reim, Reimund, Reinmund, Rémon, Rémond, Remondeau, Remondon, Rémont, Reymond, Rimondi, and Rimondini. Translations and variations Albanian: Rajmond Ancient Germanic: Raginmund, Raimund Arabic: ريمون (Rimun) Basque: Erramun, Erramon Belarusian: Райманд (Rajmand) Bengali: রেমন্ড (Rēmanḍa) Bulgarian: Реймонд (Rejmond) Catalan: Ramon, Raimon Chinese Simplified: 雷蒙德 Chinese Traditional: 雷蒙德 Croatian: Rajmund Czech: Rajmund Danish: Ramund Dutch: Remon, Ramone, Raemon, Raemonn, Ramond, Ramonte, Remone English: Raymund, Ray, Raymon, Rayman, Raymann, Raymen, Raymone, Raymun, Raemonn, Redmond, Radmond, Radmund, Reddin, Redmund, Reimond, Reymon, Reymound, Reymund, Raimond, Raimonds Estonian: Raimund, Raimond Finnish: Raimo, Reima French: Raymond, Raymonde (feminine), Reimonde German: Raimund, Reimund Greek: Ραϋμόνδος (Raf̱̈móndos, Raÿmóndos), also Ρεμούνδος (Remoúndos) Gujarati: રેમન્ડ (Rēmanḍa) Hebrew: ריימונד Hindi: रेमंड (Rēmaṇḍa) Hungarian: Ramón, Rajmund Indonesian: Raimundus Irish: Réamann, Radmond, Redmond, Redmund, Reamonn, Ré Italian: Raimondo, Raimondi, Raymondo, Reimondo, Reimundo Japanese: レイモンド (Reimondo), レーモンド (Rēmondo) Kannada: ರೇಮಂಡ್ (Rēmaṇḍ) Marathi: रेमंड (Rēmaṇḍ) Korean: 레이몬드 (Reimondeu) Latin: Raimundus Latvian: Raimonds Limburgish: Remao, Mao Lithuanian: Raimundas, Raimondas Macedonian: Рејмонд (Rejmond) Nepali: रेमंड (Rēmaṇḍa) Norwegian: Rådmund, Råmund Old Norse: Ráðmundr, Rámundr Persian: ریموند Polish: Rajmund Portuguese: Raimundo Punjabi: ਰੇਮੰਡ (Rēmaḍa) Romanian: Reimond Russian: Раймонд (Raymond) Scots: Raymond, Raymie,