Raouf
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2023): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2023
/ɹəuf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raouf is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common given name.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.8K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 22K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Raouf 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 | #91 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Raouf | 65 |
| TN Tunisia | #159 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Raouf | 45 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Raouf | 110 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 705 | — | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 156K | 1 | Raouf | 29 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Raouf | 9 |
| US United States | — | 367 | 1 in 906K | 363 | Raouf | 152 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5 | — | — |
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: the dz-kaggle-names register; the wgnd-eg-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Raouf Mosadb. 1937EGEgyptian writer
- Raouf Abbasb. 1939EGEgyptian historian (1939–2008)
- Raʾuf Wasfib. 1939EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian writer
- Raouf Ayadb. 1940EGEgyptian caricaturist
- Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahmanb. 1941IQnot in their usual nameIraqi judge
- Raouf Ben Amorb. 1946TNTunisian actor
- Raouf Bouzaieneb. 1970TNTunisian and French football player and manager
- Mohamed Raouf Khenabb. 1984DZAlgerian association football player
- Raouf Mroivilib. 1999FRFrench football player
- Raouf Lamranib. 2001DZbadminton player
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)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 705 | #2,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 363 | #25,713 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2023 | 5 | #289 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2022 | 5 | #302 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2016 | 5 | #248 |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2015 | 5 | #252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #25,713 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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 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
- How do you pronounce Raouf?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəuf/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Raouf a male or female name?
- Raouf is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2023): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Raouf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Raouf in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raouf.
- How common is the name Raouf?
- In the United States, the national register counted 367 people named Raouf in 2020, about 1 in 906 thousand residents.
- How common is Raouf compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Raouf is the 91st most common given name of 27,215 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/raoufThe 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, “Raouf” — the 91st most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.