"Rae" meaning in English

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        "A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname. A variant of Roe."
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          "ref": "1965, Lewis Yablonsky, The Tunnel Back: Synamon, Macmillan, page 204:",
          "text": "CHUCK. Joyce Mathews! I see and this girl's name is Rae Edwards. What does Rae stand for?\nCHRIS. Rae, Rae!\nCHUCK. Rachel? That's what I'm trying to find out; Sugar Ray? Rae doesn't mean too much to me. Hooray, Sugar Ray, etc. So her name is Rachael H? I see.",
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        "A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, also used as a formal given name, mostly as a middle name."
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          "ref": "1941, Ray Bradbury, “My Premature Autobiography”, in The American Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, published 2020:",
          "text": "My first name is Ray because of a distant relative, a woman, whose name was Rae. I was named for her and spelled my name Rae until I was old enough to realize I was being mocked, when I changed it to the masculine form Ray.",
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          "word": "Ray"
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        "Feminine form of Ray."
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      "ipa": "/ɹeɪ/"
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      "rhymes": "-eɪ"
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      "homophone": "Ray"
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    {
      "homophone": "Re"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
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          "text": "CHUCK. Joyce Mathews! I see and this girl's name is Rae Edwards. What does Rae stand for?\nCHRIS. Rae, Rae!\nCHUCK. Rachel? That's what I'm trying to find out; Sugar Ray? Rae doesn't mean too much to me. Hooray, Sugar Ray, etc. So her name is Rachael H? I see.",
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      "homophone": "Ray"
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      "homophone": "Re"
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      "homophone": "Rea"
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      "homophone": "Rhea (one pronunciation)"
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