Râju
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Râju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In India it is the 3rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Telugu రాజు (rāju, “king”), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan).
- KWKuwait≈1 in 681(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 883
- PKPakistan≈1 in 413as Raja
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 Râju 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)
- #182 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 681 (inferred from the name graph)
≈570,000 named Raja, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Raju in IN India, BD Bangladesh, KW Kuwait and 3 more, Raja in PK Pakistan and Raj in MY Malaysia.
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)
- Teluguరాజుrāju“king”(measured from records)
- Sanskritराजन्rājan(measured from records)
Borrowed from Telugu రాజు (rāju, “king”), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan).
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Râju 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 | #102 | ≈570,000 est. | ≈1 in 413 | listed | Raja | 126 |
| BD Bangladesh | #32 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 883 | listed | Raju | 91 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 308 | 5.1K | Raju | 76 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Raju | 81 |
| MY Malaysia | #257 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 842 | — | Raj | 91 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #891 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 735 | — | Raju | 35 |
| KW Kuwait | #43 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 681 | — | Raju | 28 |
| PL Poland | — | 206 | 1 in 186K | 806 | — | 2 |
| IN India | #3 | — | — | 81K | Raju | 318 |
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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 Râju mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Telugu రాజు (rāju, “king”), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary.
- Is Râju a male or female name?
- Râju 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 Râju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 566 thousand people named Raja in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Râju?
- In Poland, the national register counted 206 people named Râju in 2026, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Râju compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Râju is the 102nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A2juThe 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, “Râju” — the 102nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.