Raissa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Se Raija
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɾajʃzɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.5K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 218as Раїса
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 Raissa 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #261 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Раиса, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Раиса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Raisa in MD Moldova, LV Latvia, Раїса in UA Ukraine and Raïssa in CM Cameroon.
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)
Se Raija.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raissa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #68 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 613 | #25 | Раиса | 164 |
| UA Ukraine | #51 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 218 | — | Раїса | 46 |
| BR Brazil | #389 | 137,141 | 1 in 1.5K | 137K | Raissa | 155 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #84 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 664 | 1.1K | Раиса | 40 |
| CM Cameroon | #96 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Raïssa | 14 |
| MD Moldova | #134 | 16,654as Raisa | 1 in 202 | 17K | Raisa | 18 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,934as Raisa | 1 in 641 | 2.9K | Raisa | 12 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Raissa 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 German, ) Raisa: im 20. Jh. aus dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Amable, graciosa, delicada
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Raïssa Maritainb. 1883FRRussian poet and philosopher (1883-1960)
- Raisa Bergb. 1913FRRussian geneticist and evolutive biologist
- Raisa Akhmatovab. 1928RUpoet (1928–1992)
- Raisa Gorbachevab. 1932RUwife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1932–1999)
- Raisa Ryazanovab. 1944RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Raisa Smetaninab. 1952RUSoviet cross-country skier
- Raisa Bogatyrovab. 1953UAUkrainian politician
- Raisa O'Farrillb. 1972CUCuban volleyball player (1972–2023)
- Francia Raisab. 1988USAmerican actress
- Raisa Andrianab. 1990IDIndonesian singer (1990-)
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 62 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 137K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 136K | #244 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 114K | #427 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 6.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 827 | #244 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 21 | #1,994 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3 | #13,947 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Raissa mean, and where does it come from?
- Se Raija. Recorded by Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon.
- How do you pronounce Raissa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾajʃzɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Raissa a male or female name?
- Raissa 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.
- In which country does Raissa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 thousand people named Раиса in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Raissa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 137,141 people named Raissa in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Raissa compared with other names?
- In Russia, Raissa is the 68th most common given name of 472,143 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/raissaThe 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, “Raissa” — the 68th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.