Raats
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəæts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raats is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 15K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 33K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 47K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raats 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Raats | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,127 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | Raats | 39 |
| BE Belgium | 351 | 1 in 33K | 370 | Raats | 17 |
| AU Australia | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 508K | — | Raats | 39 |
| US United States | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Raats | 35 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | 1 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
- Eddy Raatsb. 1936BEFlemish Esperantist
- Leo Raatsb. 1944NLDutch association football player (1944-1969)
- Milette Raatsb. 1971photographer
- Leen Raatsb. 1984BEFlemish poet and writer
- Brian Raatsb. 2004ZASouth African athlete (born 2004)
- Patrick RaatsNLDutch director
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.1K | #1,472 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 370 | #4,380 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 351 | #4,609 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Raats?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəæts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Raats have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Raats in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raats.
- Where is Raats most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raats is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raats?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,127 people named Raats in 2007, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Raats?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raatsThe 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, “Raats”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.