Ŕăj
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ŕăj is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi राज (rāj). Ŕăj is also written রাজ in Bengali, ରାଜ in Odia and 라자 in Korean (Hangul).
- CACanada≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ŕăj itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #182 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400,000 named Raju, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ŕăj in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Odia and 4 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Raju in IN India, BD Bangladesh, SA Saudi Arabia and 1 more, Raj in US United States, MY Malaysia, CA Canada and Raja in PK Pakistan, TN Tunisia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Hindi राज (rāj)
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ŕăj counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #3 | ≈2,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 598 | 81K | Raju | 318 |
| PK Pakistan | #102 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 706 | listed | Raja | 126 |
| BD Bangladesh | #32 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Raju | 91 |
| MY Malaysia | #257 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 983 | — | Raj | 91 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #92 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Raju | 40 |
| TN Tunisia | #877 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 826 | — | Raja | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #891 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 956 | — | Raju | 35 |
| US United States | — | 7,427 | 1 in 45K | 6.6K | Raj | 393 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 2 | Raj | 159 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ŕăj mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi राज (rāj) Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Ŕăj a male or female name?
- Ŕăj is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Ŕăj?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 million people named Raju in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ŕăj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,427 people named Ŕăj in 2020, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Ŕăj compared with other names?
- In India, Ŕăj is the 3rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ŕăj” — ranked 214th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.