Raja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sand; silvery; shining; pollen; emotion; affection
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɑːdʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raja 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.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 413(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 842
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.4K
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 Raja 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 413 (inferred from the name graph)
≈570,000 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Raju in IN India, BD Bangladesh, KW Kuwait and 3 more and Raj in MY Malaysia, ES Spain.
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)
sand; silvery; shining; pollen; emotion; affection.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raja 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 |
| ES Spain | — | 515 | 1 in 97K | 1.8K | Raj | 45 |
| 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Raja 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 Malay, A king; a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, king, male monarch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, , Dtr., munt., Slanic (RI XIV 194). Itilndau, v. ArInda u. Ranea, v. Rine a.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Arabic, hope, wish. See Amal Ju/
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, hope, wish. See Amal Jui
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim 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)
- Rajaraja Ib. 947not in their usual nameChola Emperor
- Raja Birbalb. 1528INMughal advisor at Akbar's court, appearing in many folk tales which focus on his wit
- Ravi Varmab. 1848INnot in their usual nameIndian painter from Kerala (1848–1906)
- Raja Raob. 1908INIndian-born English writer (1908–2006)
- Raja Ramannab. 1925INIndian nuclear scientist (1925-2004)
- Raja Gosnellb. 1958USAmerican film editor and director
- Raja Amarib. 1971TNTunisian film director
- Raja Krishnamoorthib. 1973USAmerican lawyer and politician (born 1973)
- Raja Bellb. 1976USAmerican basketball player
- Raja Charib. 1977USAmerican astronaut
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 90 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 515 | #4,478 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 474 | #2,197 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 142 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 77 | #9,071 |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Raja?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑːdʒə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Raja mean, and where does it come from?
- sand; silvery; shining; pollen; emotion; affection. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- What are other forms of the name Raja?
- In the etymology graph, Raj and Raju are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Raja a male or female name?
- Raja 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 Raja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 566 thousand people named Raja in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raja.
- How common is the name Raja?
- In Spain, the national register counted 515 people named Raja, about 1 in 97 thousand residents.
- How common is Raja compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Raja 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/rajaThe 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, “Raja” — the 102nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.