Räi
surname · Latin script
Räi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 100th most common surname.
- NPNepal1 in 47(measured from records)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 2.7Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.8K
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 Räi 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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- #582 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 349 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47 (inferred from the name graph)
640,674 people, 2021
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rai in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 3 more.
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)태풍 이름. 제44차 태풍위원회 총회에서 2010년 중국에 큰 피해를 준 태풍 파나피(FANAPI)의 이름을 라이(RAI)로 변경하기로 결정.
Cited for this meaning 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 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Räi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | 640,674 | 1 in 47 | 641K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 458,980as Wright | 1 in 725 | 459K | Rai | 349 |
| IN India | #100 | 93,858 | 1 in 14K | 94K | Rai | 309 |
| PK Pakistan | #957 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Rai | 79 |
| BD Bangladesh | #431 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Rai | 28 |
| MY Malaysia | #546 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Rai | 48 |
| HK Hong Kong | #360 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Rai | 34 |
| GY Guyana | — | 309as Wright | 1 in 2.4K | 309 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Räi have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 641 thousand people named Räi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Räi most common?
- Räi is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 47 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Räi?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 640,674 people named Räi in 2021, about 1 in 47 residents.
- How common is Räi compared with other names?
- In India, Räi is the 100th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A4iThe 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, “Räi” — the 100th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.