Raisi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Persian surname رئیسی (ra'isi)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹejsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raisi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Oman it is the 97th most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 152K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 232K
- BEBelgium1 in 977K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
44 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Persian surname رئیسی (ra'isi)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raisi 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.
44 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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)
Raisi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, Nordreisa (a municipality of Troms, Norway)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Yoruba, rice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ebrahim Raisib. 1960IRPresident of Iran from 2021 to 2024
- Enzo Raisib. 1961ITItalian politician and entrepreneur
- Mehrdad Raissi Ardalib. 1978IRnot in their usual nameIranian voice actor
- Buthaina al-Raisib. 1983OMOmani actress
- Afsaneh RaiesifarIRnot in their usual nameresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #13,954 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #31,643 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #65,860 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #111,707 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #71,357 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #65,469 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #15,933 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Raisi mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Persian surname رئیسی (ra'isi) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Raisi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹejsi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Raisi have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 44 people named Raisi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Raisi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raisi is densest in Norway — about 1 in 152 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raisi?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 44 people named Raisi, about 1 in 232 thousand residents.
- How common is Raisi compared with other names?
- In Oman, Raisi is the 97th most common surname of 6,894 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raisiThe 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, “Raisi” — the 97th most common surname in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.