Raïf

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Raïf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 55K
  • SESweden1 in 102K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

457 people, 2020

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Raif in US United States.

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)

recorded in Turkish

Acıması olan, merhametli.

Sources 2

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Raïf 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.

Where Raïf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4571 in 728K453Raif18
BR Brazil2411 in 878K241——
SE Sweden1001 in 102K100—1
AL Albania761 in 40K76——
SI Slovenia381 in 55K39——
HR Croatia291 in 146K29——
DK Denmark261 in 226K26——

457 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Raïf is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Raif, Ŕaif

  • Turkish given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Cyprus, United States, India

    Languages: Turkish, Arabic, Urdu

    Also written Raif, Ráif, Râif, Raîf, Râïf

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Raïf under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Raïf a male or female name?
Raïf 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 Raïf have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 457 people named Raïf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raif.
Where is Raïf most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raïf is densest in Albania — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Raïf?
In the United States, the national register counted 457 people named Raïf in 2020, about 1 in 728 thousand residents.

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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, “Raïf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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