Raha
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kiswahili: 'happiness, rest'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Raha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 100K(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 11K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 48Kas Rah
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 Raha 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rah in PK Pakistan.
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)
Kiswahili: 'happiness, rest'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #425 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Raha | 37 |
| IN India | — | 13,250 | 1 in 100K | 13K | Raha | 100 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | listed | Rah | 15 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Raha | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 304K | listed | Raha | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Raha | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 54as Rah | 1 in 101K | 106 | — | 2 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Raha is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
comfort
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Finnish, money (means of exchange and measure of value)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dtp, blood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, rajah (title of a sovereign in most of pre-16th century Philippine Islands)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, relative of the same sex
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Ashok Bijoy Rahab. 1910INBengali poet
- Arup Rahab. 1954INformer chief of the Indian Air Force
- Maria Rahab. 1972USAmerican journalist
- Farzad Rahab. 2004IRactor
- Sandeep RahaCAresearcher
- Nandita RahaUSresearcher
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 51 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 13K | #824 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 77 | #4,468 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #51,427 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Raha mean, and where does it come from?
- Kiswahili: 'happiness, rest'. Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Raha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Raha in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raha.
- How common is the name Raha?
- In India, the national register counted 13,250 people named Raha, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
- How common is Raha compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Raha is the 425th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rahaThe 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, “Raha” — the 425th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.