Ráo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: be dried up
Ráo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In India it is the 37th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.3Kas Rabi
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3.4Kas Ravi
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 Ráo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #493 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ravi in IN India, ID Indonesia, SG Singapore and 1 more, Rao in US United States, BR Brazil, PK Pakistan and Rabi in NG Nigeria.
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)be dried up
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ráo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2 | Rao | 87 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Rabi | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 63,267as Ravi | 1 in 3.3K | 63K | Rao | 49 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | listed | Ravi | 103 |
| US United States | — | 9,577as Ravi | 1 in 35K | 15K | Rao | 407 |
| SG Singapore | #319 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Ravi | 100 |
| GY Guyana | #178 | 341as Ravi | 1 in 2.2K | 341 | Ravi | 6 |
| IN India | #37 | — | — | 145K | Ravi | 346 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; 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)Ráo 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嬈 /娆
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rao Guohuab. 1894CNChinese general
- Rao Shushib. 1903CNChinese politician (1903-1975)
- Jao Tsung-Ib. 1917CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong Sinologist (1917-2018)
- Yao Eng-Chib. 1934TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese politician
- Rao Yib. 1962CNChinese neurobiologist
- Rao Kaixunb. 1964CNChinese military officer
- Dileep Raob. 1973USAmerican actor
- Domenico Raob. 1977ITItalian sprinter
- Elaine Yiub. 1980CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Rao Weihuib. 1989CNfootballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ráo mean, and where does it come from?
- be dried up Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ráo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Ráo in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rao.
- How common is the name Ráo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 63,267 people named Ravi in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ráo compared with other names?
- In India, Ráo is the 37th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A1oThe 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, “Ráo” — the 37th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.