Rajani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘the dark one’, ‘night’; a byname of Durga, the wife of Shiva
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəʒɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rajani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 1.2Kas รัชนี(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 175Kas Rainey
- NPNepal≈1 in 9.4K
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 Rajani 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 named รัชนี, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rajni in AE United Arab Emirates, KW Kuwait, รัชนี in TH Thailand and রজনী in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Sanskrit: ‘the dark one’, ‘night’; a byname of Durga, the wife of Shiva.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rajani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #115 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | #378,369 | รัชนี | 119 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | listed | Rajani | 33 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 1 | Rajani | 34 |
| US United States | — | 1,900as Rainey | 1 in 175K | 23K | Rajani | 187 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 199K | listed | রজনী | 14 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Rajni | 26 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Rajni | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Rajani 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 Estonian, terminative singular of raja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, inflection of raja:
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)
- Rajani Palme Duttb. 1896GBBritish communist and journalist (1896–1974)
- Rajani Kanta Choudhuryb. 1949researcher in particle physics
- Rajani Thiranagamab. 1954LKhuman rights activist (1954–1989)
- Rajani Joshib. 1968NPbadminton player
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 42 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,733 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 72 | #10,733 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 5 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #265 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Rajani mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘the dark one’, ‘night’; a byname of Durga, the wife of Shiva. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Rajani?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəʒɑni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Rajani a male or female name?
- Rajani 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 Rajani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named รัชนี in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Rajani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,900 people named Rainey in 2020, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
- How common is Rajani compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Rajani is the 115th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rajani?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rajaniThe 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, “Rajani” — the 115th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.