Raïsa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Raïsa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the Russian saint's name Раи́са (Raísa), from Ancient Greek.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 218as Раїса(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 613as Раиса
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 664as Раиса
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 Raïsa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #261 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Раиса, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Раиса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Raisa in MD Moldova, LV Latvia, Раїса in UA Ukraine and Raissa in BR Brazil.
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 the Russian saint's name Раи́са (Raísa), from Ancient Greek.
Cited for this meaning 8
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
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- The African book of names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Raïsa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #68 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 613 | register #25 | Раиса | 164 |
| UA Ukraine | #51 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 218 | — | Раїса | 46 |
| BR Brazil | #389 | 137,141as Raissa | 1 in 1.5K | 137K | Raissa | 155 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #84 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 664 | 1.1K | Раиса | 40 |
| CM Cameroon | #96 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Raïssa | 14 |
| MD Moldova | #134 | 16,654 | 1 in 202 | 17K | Raisa | 18 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,934 | 1 in 641 | 2.9K | Raisa | 12 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)- Raisa Belyaevab. 1912RUSoviet aviator (1912-1943)
- Raisa Bergb. 1913FRRussian geneticist and evolutive biologist
- Raisa Orlovab. 1918DERussian writer (1918–1989)
- Raisa Struchkovab. 1925RURussian dancer (1925-2005)
- Raisa Akhmatovab. 1928RUpoet (1928–1992)
- Raisa Gorbachevab. 1932RUwife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1932–1999)
- Raisa Ryazanovab. 1944RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Raisa Karmazinab. 1951RURussian politician
- Raisa Smetaninab. 1952RUSoviet cross-country skier
- Raisa Bogatyrovab. 1953UAUkrainian politician
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Raïsa mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Russian saint's name Раи́са (Raísa), from Ancient Greek. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 6 other sources.
- Is Raïsa a male or female name?
- Raïsa is a female 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 Raïsa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 thousand people named Раиса in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Raïsa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raïsa is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 202 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raïsa?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 16,654 people named Raïsa, about 1 in 202 residents.
- How common is Raïsa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Raïsa is the 68th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ra%C3%AFsaThe 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, “Raïsa” — the 68th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.