Rài

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rài is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 63K
  • NPNepal1 in 47

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nepal (measured from records)

640,674 people, 2021

Sources
317 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 47 (inferred from the name graph)

Nepal

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rai in IN India, US United States, GY Guyana.

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)

recorded in Korean

태풍 이름. 제44차 태풍위원회 총회에서 2010년 중국에 큰 피해를 준 태풍 파나피(FANAPI)의 이름을 라이(RAI)로 변경하기로 결정.

Sources 7

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • The African book of names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rài 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.

Where Rài is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal—640,6741 in 47641K—6
IN India—93,8581 in 14K94KRai182
US United States—5,2951 in 63K20KRai317
PL Poland—8281 in 46K615—3
DK Denmark—4351 in 13K435—1
NO Norway—3341 in 16K334—9
GY Guyana#4102251 in 3.3K225Rai5

640,674 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Rài under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Rài a male or female name?
Rài is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Rài have the most bearers?
In Nepal, the national register counted about 641 thousand people named Rài, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Rài most common?
Rài is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 47 people carrying it.
How common is the name Rài?
In Nepal, the national register counted 640,674 people named Rài in 2021, about 1 in 47 residents.
How common is Rài compared with other names?
In Guyana, Rài is the 410th most common surname of 15,834 surnames 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, “Rài” — the 410th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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