Raisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹeɪsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 218as Раїса(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 613as Раиса
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 664as Раиса
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 Raisa 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #261 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Раиса, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Раиса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Раїса in UA Ukraine, Raissa in BR Brazil and Raïssa in CM Cameroon.
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)
A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Raisa, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raisa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #68 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 613 | #25 | Раиса | 164 |
| UA Ukraine | #51 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 218 | — | Раїса | 46 |
| BR Brazil | #389 | 137,141as Raissa | 1 in 1.5K | 137K | Raissa | 155 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #84 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 664 | 1.1K | Раиса | 40 |
| CM Cameroon | #96 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Raïssa | 14 |
| MD Moldova | #134 | 16,654 | 1 in 202 | 17K | Raisa | 18 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,934 | 1 in 641 | 2.9K | Raisa | 12 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Raisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, leader, superior; fem. of Ra’is
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In English, Russian from Greek; adaptable
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Arabic, leader; chief
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Slavonic: ‘paradise’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
President.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Raïssa Maritainb. 1883FRnot in their usual nameRussian poet and philosopher (1883-1960)
- Raisa Bergb. 1913FRRussian geneticist and evolutive biologist
- Raisa Akhmatovab. 1928RUpoet (1928–1992)
- Raisa Gorbachevab. 1932RUwife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1932–1999)
- Raisa Ryazanovab. 1944RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Raisa Smetaninab. 1952RUSoviet cross-country skier
- Raisa Bogatyrovab. 1953UAUkrainian politician
- Raisa O'Farrillb. 1972CUCuban volleyball player (1972–2023)
- Francia Raisab. 1988USAmerican actress
- Raisa Andrianab. 1990IDIndonesian singer (1990-)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 29K | #1,134 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 19K | #1,096 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 17K | #71 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2.9K | #190 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 851 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 88 | #1,096 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Raisa?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹeɪsə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- What does the name Raisa mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Raisa a male or female name?
- Raisa is a female 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 Raisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 thousand people named Раиса in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Raisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raisa is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 202 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raisa?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 16,654 people named Raisa, about 1 in 202 residents.
- How common is Raisa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Raisa is the 68th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raisaThe 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, “Raisa” — the 68th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.