Riyaj
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: naampy, 2015
Riyaj is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common surname.
- INIndia1 in 9.1M(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 800as Riaz
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3.1Kfew recordsas Riaz
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 Riyaj itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 named Riaz, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Riaz in PK Pakistan, GB United Kingdom, BD Bangladesh and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Riyaj is found
(measured from records)Riyaj 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 | #33 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 801 | listed | Riaz | 162 |
| BD Bangladesh | #156 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Riaz | 85 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Riyaj | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Riaz | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 20 | Riaz | 144 |
| NO Norway | — | 514as Riaz | 1 in 11K | 514 | Riaz | 17 |
| IN India | — | 146 | 1 in 9.1M | 146 | Riyaj | 82 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Riyaj a male or female name?
- Riyaj is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Riyaj?
- Mondonomo estimates about 314 thousand people named Riaz in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Riyaj most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riyaj is densest in India — about 1 in 9.1 million people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Riyaj?
- In India, the national register counted 146 people named Riyaj, about 1 in 9.1 million residents.
- How common is Riyaj compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Riyaj is the 33rd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Riyaj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riyajThe 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, “Riyaj” — the 33rd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.