Raji
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hopeful, hoping, full of hope
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹadʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 21Kas รุจี
- USUnited States1 in 45Kas Raj
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 Raji 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled รุจี in TH Thailand.
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)
hopeful, hoping, full of hope
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raji 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | listed | Raji | 46 |
| US United States | 7,427as Raj | 1 in 45K | 17K | Raji | 204 |
| TH Thailand | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | #545,493 | รุจี | 55 |
| MA Morocco | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Raji | 26 |
| NP Nepal | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 5.1K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 93as Raj | 1 in 8.1K | 93 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 76as Raja | 1 in 25K | 76 | — | — |
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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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)
Raji is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, hopeful
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, hopeful; one who hopes
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
streak; line; stripe.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
silvery; shining.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In rom, alternative form of rani (“lady, dame, mistress”)
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)
- Remi Rajib. 1961NGNigerian poet
- Naoufal Rajib. 1988FRFrench association football player
- Rasheed Adisa RajiNGNigerian military governor
- Inioluwa Deborah RajiNGNigerian-Canadian computer scientist and activist
- Bashiru Ademola RajiNGNigerian professor of soil science, pedologist, geologist, environmental impact assessment expert and the former vice chancellor of Fountain University, Osogbo
- Olaide Yaqeen RajiGBresearcher
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 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only | 2021 | 5.1K | #98 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 759 | #32,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 422 | #49,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 241 | #74,675 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Raji mean, and where does it come from?
- hopeful, hoping, full of hope Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Raji?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹadʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Raji a male or female name?
- Raji is a male 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 Raji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Raji in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raji.
- How common is the name Raji?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,427 people named Raj in 2020, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Raji?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rajiThe 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, “Raji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.