Raita
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Raita is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Finnish, recorded as stripe, band (long strip of a colour or material).
- FIFinland1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 45K
- LVLatvia≈1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,666 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
stripe, band (long strip of a colour or material)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Raita is read(measured from records)
Raita is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Hindi70%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Raita in Hindi.
- Finnish31%
stripe, band (long strip of a colour or material)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.7%
A condiment made from seasoned yogurt used as a dip or sauce in the cuisine of southern Asia.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Raita 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 1,666 | 1 in 3.3K | 1.7K | Raita | 15 |
| RO Romania | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Raita | 11 |
| KE Kenya | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Raita | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Raita | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 50 | 1 in 204K | 50 | Raita | 8 |
| NO Norway | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | 3 |
| LV Latvia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 201 | — | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 5 | — | — |
1,666 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Raita is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, sallow, goat willow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, goat willow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, RÁITĂ, raite, s. f., interj. 1. S. f. (Fam.) Parcurgere a unui drum fără opriri (mari), trecere în grabă pe undeva, vizită scurtă. 2. Interj. (Înv.; în forma raita) Cuvânt de recunoaștere rostit de paznicii de noapte, când se apropiau unul de altul.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, Indiešu virtuves ēdiens (dzēriens): jogurtā iemaisīti sasmalcināti gurķi vai citi dārzeņi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Antti Raitab. 1883FIFinnish racing cyclist
- Antti Raitab. 1883FIFinnish politician
- Toivo Raitab. 1893FIFinnish writer
- Eino Raitab. 1903FIFinnish theatre director and actor
- Valli Raitab. 1905FIFinnish actor (1905-1977)
- Marjatta Raitab. 1944FIFinnish actress (1944–2007)
- Henna Raitab. 1975FIFinnish alpine skier
- Matti RaitaFIFinnish actor
- Mikko RaitaFIFinnish audio engineer
- Bogdan RaițăGBD.Phil. University of Oxford 2019
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.7K | #1,172 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 695 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50 | #12,642 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #30,720 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Raita mean, and where does it come from?
- stripe, band (long strip of a colour or material) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Raita have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Raita, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raita.
- Where is Raita most common?
- Raita is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Raita?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,666 people named Raita, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raitaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Raita”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.