Ràw
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ràw is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 322K
- DEGermany≈1 in 575K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈930 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Raew in GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and Raw in US United States, PK Pakistan.
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)
- Middle Englishrawe(measured from records)
- Old Englishhrēaw“raw“raw, uncooked”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*hrau(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*hrawaz“raw”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*krewh₂-“raw meat“raw meat, fresh blood”(measured from records)
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Sources 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ràw 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 1.8K | Raew | 132 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Raw | 11 |
| US United States | 334 | 1 in 996K | 369 | Raw | 173 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 575K | — | Raew | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 69 | 1 in 3.1M | 69 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 6 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Ràw mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Ràw a male or female name?
- Ràw 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.
- In which country does Ràw have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 929 people named Ràw in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raew.
- How common is the name Ràw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 334 people named Ràw in 2010, about 1 in 996 thousand residents.
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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, “Ràw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.