Ragas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Greičiausiai pravardinė pavardė iš liet

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɹɑɡəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ragas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 441K
  • RERéunion≈1 in 1.6K

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 Ragas 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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,600 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
160 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Réunion, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RagasLatin(measured from records)
ระกาศThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Greičiausiai pravardinė pavardė iš liet. ragas „kieta smaili gyvulio (ppr. žinduolio) kaktos išauga“ (LKŽ XI 22)

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ragas 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.

Where Ragas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈4,600 est.≈1 in 24K—Ragas42
US United States—7541 in 441K792Ragas160
LA Laos—≈650 est.≈1 in 11K—Ragas2
RE Réunion#145≈490 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Ragas1
PE Peru—≈260 est.≈1 in 125K—Ragas10
HR Croatia—211as Rakas1 in 20K211——
SE Sweden—≈210 est.≈1 in 49K1Ragas1

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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ragas is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ragàs

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ragàs

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ragas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Lithuanian, horn

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lithuanian, Greičiausiai pravardinė pavardė iš liet. rėgas „kieta smaili gyvulio (ppr. žinduolio) kaktos išauga“ (LKŽ

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Latvian, Ragavas

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000Henry Ragas, b. 1891Roef Ragas, b. 1965Bastiaan Ragas, b. 1971Tooske Ragas, b. 1974Trey Ragas, b. 1996

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)

FormalDear Ragas,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Ragas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020792#31,342
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010754#30,863
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000694#31,530
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Ragas?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɑɡəz/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Ragas mean?
Recorded meaning: Greičiausiai pravardinė pavardė iš liet.
In which country does Ragas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Ragas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ragas.
How common is the name Ragas?
In the United States, the national register counted 754 people named Ragas in 2010, about 1 in 441 thousand residents.
How common is Ragas compared with other names?
In Réunion, Ragas is the 145th most common surname of 3,012 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, “Ragas” — the 145th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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