Dhanraj
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dhanraj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a Hindi personal name composed of the elements धन (dhan, “wealth, riches”) and राज (rāj, “kingdom, rule, royalty”).
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 9.5K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 16K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
From a Hindi personal name composed of the elements धन (dhan, “wealth, riches”) and राज (rāj, “kingdom, rule, royalty”).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dhanraj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Dhanraj | 13 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Dhanraj | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 527K | — | Dhanraj | 3 |
| US United States | — | 287 | 1 in 1.2M | 615 | Dhanraj | 150 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Dhanraj | 22 |
| JM Jamaica | #466 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Dhanraj | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 312K | — | Dhanraj | 10 |
| GY Guyana | #131 | — | — | 832 | Dhanraj | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Deepa Dhanrajb. 1953INIndian documentary filmmaker, writer and researcher
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 832 | #112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 615 | #38,716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 526 | #41,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 306 | #61,376 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dhanraj mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Hindi personal name composed of the elements धन (dhan, “wealth, riches”) and राज (rāj, “kingdom, rule, royalty”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Dhanraj a male or female name?
- Dhanraj 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 Dhanraj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Dhanraj in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dhanraj.
- How common is the name Dhanraj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 287 people named Dhanraj in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Dhanraj compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Dhanraj is the 131st most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dhanrajThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Dhanraj” — the 131st most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.