Raid
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹeɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 8.8K
- USUnited States1 in 844K
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 Raid 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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rajd in LV Latvia.
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 quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Raid is read(measured from records)
Raid is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic37%
pioneer, explorer, leader, model
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English16%
A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Raid in Turkish.
- Spanish5.0%
raid (military)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #512 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 9K | listed | Raid | 25 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | listed | Raid | 73 |
| SY Syria | #795 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Raid | 14 |
| JO Jordan | #973 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Raid | 43 |
| OM Oman | #146 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Raid | 27 |
| LV Latvia | #459 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Rajd | 3 |
| US United States | — | 394 | 1 in 844K | 388 | Raid | 128 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the dz-kaggle-names 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)
Raid is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, raid, incursion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vep, willow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, RÁID, raiduri, s. n. 1. Incursiune rapidă de nave sau de avioane făcută (individual sau în grup) în spațiul unei țări străine, în scopuri militare. 2. Deplasare de avioane, de nave sau (înv.) de trupe, în scopul unor recunoașteri, al unor cercetări științifice etc. 3. (În sintagma) Raid-anchetă = anchetă pe o anumită temă efectuată în diferite întreprinderi, localități etc.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Aleksander Raidb. 1913EEEstonian linguist (1913-1983)
- Robert Raidb. 1915EEEstonian writer (1915-1978)
- Jaroslav Raidb. 1919EEEstonian historian and civil servant (1919–1984)
- Kaljo Raidb. 1921EEEstonian composer (1921–2005)
- Vaike Raidb. 1925EEEstonian historian (1925-1999)
- Hubert Raidb. 1932EEEstonian veterinary scientist (1932-2016)
- Kaarin Raidb. 1942EEEstonian director (1942-2014)
- Raivo Raidb. 1957EEEstonian biologist (born 1957)
- Juku-Kalle Raidb. 1974EEEstonian politician (born 1974)
- Risto Raidb. 1990EEEstonian cyclist (born 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 54 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 388 | #24,456 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #24,456 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
- What does the name Raid mean, and where does it come from?
- A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Raid?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹeɪd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Raid a male or female name?
- Raid 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 Raid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Raid in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raid.
- How common is the name Raid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 394 people named Raid in 2020, about 1 in 844 thousand residents.
- How common is Raid compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Raid is the 512th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raidThe 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, “Raid” — the 512th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.