Raúf
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Raúf is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 822 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Arabic رَؤُوف (raʔūf).
- NONorway1 in 25K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 128K
- FIFinland1 in 169K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
822 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rauf in US United States, IN India, ES Spain.
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 Arabic رَؤُوف (raʔūf).
Cited for this meaning 6
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Raúf is found
(measured from records)Raúf 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 822 | 1 in 405K | 1.2K | Rauf | 32 |
| IN India | 244 | 1 in 5.4M | 244 | Rauf | 12 |
| NO Norway | 222 | 1 in 25K | 222 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 211 | 1 in 237K | 211 | Rauf | 22 |
| PL Poland | 81 | 1 in 473K | 158 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 46 | 1 in 128K | 46 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 33 | 1 in 169K | 65 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | — | 1 |
822 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Raúf mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic رَؤُوف (raʔūf). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and 4 other sources.
- Is Raúf a male or female name?
- Raúf 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Raúf?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 822 people named Raúf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rauf. After it come India, Norway, Spain and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Raúf most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raúf is densest in Norway — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raúf?
- In the United States, the national register counted 822 people named Raúf in 2010, about 1 in 405 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ra%C3%BAfThe 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, “Raúf” — ranked 22840th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.