Raga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Raga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In English, recorded as Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 27K
- ESSpain1 in 27K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
, b. (Hur), cf. subst. hdgdu ponor" magh. hag pas".
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
How Raga is read(measured from records)
Raga is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish62%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Raga in Spanish.
- English18%
Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian6.0%
body; physique
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Raga | 91 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Raga | 28 |
| VE Venezuela | #694 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Raga | 38 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,819 | 1 in 27K | 1.8K | Raga | 103 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 1 | Raga | 39 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 2 | — | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Raga is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, , b. (Hur), cf. subst. hdgdu ponor" magh. hag pas".
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Siva (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
of the family of Raghu.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Swahili, rugby (a sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giuseppe Ragab. 1873ITItalian poet (1873–1957)
- María Cora Muñoz Ragab. 1893ESSpanish singer (1893–1980)
- José Algueró Ragab. 1914ESSpanish production designer (1914-2000)
- Manuel Ragab. 1944MXMexican basketball player (born 1944)
- Vicent Ragab. 1950ESSpanish philosopher and publisher
- Alejandro González Ragab. 1958CUCuban journalist
- Tom Ragab. 1965USAmerican politician
- Ramon Ramon i Ragab. 1970ESwriter
- Manuel Raga Jr.b. 1973CHSwiss basketball player (born 1973)
- Adam Ragab. 1982ESSpanish motorcycle racer
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 41 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #2,619 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #2,619 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 2 | #34 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
Reference works 5
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Raga come from?
- , b. (Hur), cf. subst. hdgdu ponor" magh. hag pas". Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- What does the name Raga mean?
- In English, Any of various melodic forms used in Indian classical music, or a piece of music composed in such a form.
- In which country does Raga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Raga in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raga.
- How common is the name Raga?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,819 people named Raga, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Raga compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Raga is the 694th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Raga” — the 694th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.