Raife
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Acıyan, esirgeyen, merhametli
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
/ɾaiːfe/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Raife is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 34K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 46K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Acıyan, esirgeyen, merhametli.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Raife 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Raife | 37 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Raife | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 200 | 1 in 1.1M | 262 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 36 | Raife | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Raife | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Raife | 5 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 61 | — | 1 |
| MK North Macedonia | #735 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Raife | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 36 | #62,359 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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
- Is Raife a male or female name?
- Raife is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- How do you pronounce Raife?
- In Turkish /ɾaiːfe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Raife mean?
- Recorded meaning: Acıyan, esirgeyen, merhametli.
- In which country does Raife have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Raife in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raife.
- How common is the name Raife?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 200 people named Raife in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Raife compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Raife is the 735th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raifeThe 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, “Raife” — the 735th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.