Räo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Räo 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sicilian Rau, variant of dragu (“monster”), from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 26K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.3Kas Rabi
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 Räo 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)
- Sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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, NP Nepal and 1 more, Rao in BR Brazil, PK Pakistan, CN China 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)
- SicilianRau(measured from records)
- Latindracō(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekδράκωνdrákōn(measured from records)
Borrowed from Sicilian Rau, variant of dragu (“monster”), from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).
Sources 5
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Räo 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 |
| CN China | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Rao | 104 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | listed | Ravi | 103 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ravi | 59 |
| 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; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Räo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sicilian Rau, variant of dragu (“monster”), from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Räo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Räo in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rao.
- How common is the name Räo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 63,267 people named Ravi in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Räo compared with other names?
- In India, Räo is the 37th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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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, “Räo” — the 37th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.