Raili

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Finnish: a female given name popular in the 1930s and the 1940s

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Raili is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 475(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 13K
  • ALAlbania1 in 81K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

11,732 people

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 475 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name popular in the 1930s and the 1940s

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

How Raili is read(measured from records)

Raili is one spelling over 5 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.

  • Finnish33%

    a female given name popular in the 1930s and the 1940s

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

  • English19%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Raili in English.

  • Estonian11%

    a female given name derived from biblical Rahel or Raahel (“Rachel”)

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

  • Hindi6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Raili in Hindi.

  • Chinese6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Raili in Chinese.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Raili 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 Raili is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland11,7321 in 47523KRaili9
SE Sweden7891 in 13K789—1
US United States1531 in 2.2M145Raili16
BR Brazil1231 in 1.7M178Raili22
AL Albania381 in 81K35——
DK Denmark151 in 391K15——
MD Moldova21 in 1.7M2——

11,732 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population 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).

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

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

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, France

    Also written Raïli

  • Russian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Riley, Райли, Райлі, Раили, Ryley

44 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)

Raili 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 Swedish, Raili är ett finskt namn, möjligen en barnspråksvariant av → Rakel. Till namnets popu laritet i Finland har möjligen bidragit att det har associerats med raikas, railakas ’fräsch, pigg; glad, uppsluppen’. Namnet används även i Estland.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

1920193019401950Raili Kauppi, b. 1920Raili Pietilä, b. 1926Raili Kostia, b. 1930Anja Pohjola, b. 1931Outi Nyytäjä, b. 1935Kirsti Ala-Harja, b. 1936Raili Manninen, b. 1940Raili Puhakka, b. 1940Raili Mikkanen, b. 1941Raili Tang, b. 1950

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 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Raili
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—23K#109
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—12K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)19991.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20001.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20011.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20021.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20031.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20041.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20051.1K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20061K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20071K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20081K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Raili mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name popular in the 1930s and the 1940s Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Raili a male or female name?
Raili 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 Raili?
In the etymology graph, Rachel, Raquel and Rachael are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Raili have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Raili, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raili.
Where is Raili most common?
Raili is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 475 people carrying it.
How common is the name Raili?
In Finland, the national register counted 11,732 people named Raili, about 1 in 475 residents.

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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, “Raili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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