Rája
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rája is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: table Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai), from Proto-Slavic *krajь.
- LVLatvia1 in 25K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 27K
- DKDenmark1 in 31K
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 States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
3,542 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Raja 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)
- Old East Slavicкраиkrai(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*krajь(measured from records)
table Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai), from Proto-Slavic *krajь. The same word was also borrowed into other Finnic languages, such as Estonian raja, Ingrian raja, Karelian raja, Ludian raja, Votic raja.
Sources 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 37 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rája 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.
3,542 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rája is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, ray (a marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rája mean, and where does it come from?
- table Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai), from Proto-Slavic *krajь. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Rája have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Rája, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raja.
- Where is Rája most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rája is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rája?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,542 people named Rája in 2020, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A1jaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rája”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.