Raeder
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Raeder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Ræder or German Räder.
- USUnited States1 in 20Kas Rader(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 26Kas Rader
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30Kas Rader
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 Raeder 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- 1 in 510K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 named Rader, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rader in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Räder in DE Germany.
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)
Borrowed from Norwegian Ræder or German Räder.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raeder 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Rader | 5 |
| US United States | 16,320as Rader | 1 in 20K | 16K | Rader | 382 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 26 | Rader | 61 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Räder | 85 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Rader | 51 |
| AT Austria | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 9 | Rader | 32 |
| SG Singapore | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Rader | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Raeder | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 20 | 1 in 510K | 478 | Raeder | 6 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Johann Friedrich Raederb. 1815DEGerman writer, merchant and musician (1815–1872)
- Arthur Raederb. 1862LVGerman actor
- Erich Raederb. 1876DEGerman admiral (1876–1960)
- Joachim Raederb. 1951DEGerman art historian and archaeologist
- Lena Raederb. 1960SESwedish actress
- Louise Raederb. 1962SESwedish actress
- Michael Raederb. 1962DEGerman composer and songwriter
- Martin Raederb. 1977DEGerman rower
- Elina Raederb. 1985SESwedish actress
- Lukas Raederb. 1993DEGerman footballer
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 610 | #38,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 587 | #37,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 587 | #36,093 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #25,647 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Raeder mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Norwegian Ræder or German Räder. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Raeder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Rader in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Raeder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raeder is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 510 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raeder?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 20 people named Raeder, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Raeder?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raederThe 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, “Raeder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.