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I would like to offer an alternative to the above origin of the Rayborn/Rayburn/Raburn/Raibone name. I found all of these spellings in a 30-40 year period in my Raburn family as they moved from North Carolina to Georgia. It was pretty much common knowledge that the name was spelled as the writer sounded out the name. In May of this year we spent 3 1/2 weeks in Northern Ireland/Scotland/England. We found the Rae Burn, which was a stream in the border area of Scotland. It means Doe or Deer stream. According to a Surname book purchased in Scotland the writer indicated many names were originally started as a geographical name and later changed to a proper surname. This was true of the Raburn name. I quote "there is a Rae Burn in Eskdale meaning Roe-deer stream and the name occurs as a territorial designation in the 14th century (William of Raeburn, 1331) emerging as a surname proper with Thomas Raburn in 1430".
I find this origin for the Rayborn/Raburn name more believeable and probable.
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