Raila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. liet. Railas, Railė (žr.)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xailɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 25K(measured from records)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 6.9Kas Райла
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 41Kas Райла
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 Raila 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,450 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Райла in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Раила in UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
Plg. liet. Railas, Railė (žr.). Greičiausiai pravardinėįs pavardės, sietinos su liet. raila „plepys, tauškalas; rėksnys, barningas žmogus“, raitė „nenuorama, nenaudėlis, padauža“ (LKŽ XI 53)
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raila 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 8,450 | 1 in 25K | 8.4K | Raila | 53 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Раила | 4 |
| FI Finland | 1,067 | 1 in 5.2K | 1.5K | Raila | 7 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Райла | 9 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 100 | Райла | 24 |
| AL Albania | 133as Rajla | 1 in 23K | 133 | — | — |
8,450 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Raila is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, Plg. liet. Railas, „Rdilė (žr.). Greičiausiai pravardinės pavardės, sietinos su liet. rdila „plepys, tauškalas; rėksnys, barningas Žmogus“, rdilė „nenuorama, nenaudėlis, padauža“ (LKŽ XI 53).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Raila Ahob. 1937FIFinnish politician
- Raila Kerkeläb. 1941FIFinnish orienteer
- Raila Odingab. 1945KEPrime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013
- Raila Kinnunenb. 1947FIFinnish non-fiction writer
- Raila Leppäkoskib. 1950FIFinnish theatre director
- Raila Mantereb. 1951FIFinnish poet
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)
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)
Attested in 40 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 283 | #27,768 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 51 | #22,458 |
Reference works 6
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Raila?
- A machine transcription gives /xailɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Raila mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. liet. Railas, Railė (žr.).
- Is Raila a male or female name?
- Raila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Raila?
- In the etymology graph, Raili is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Raila have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Raila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raila.
- Where is Raila most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raila is densest in Finland — about 1 in 5.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,450 people named Raila in 2022, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Raila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/railaThe 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, “Raila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.