Rajiv
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘striped’, the name of a species of fish and of the blue lotus
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɹɑˈdʒiv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rajiv is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 31K
- USUnited States1 in 111K
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 Rajiv 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #939 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Rajib, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rajib in BD Bangladesh, ID Indonesia, PK Pakistan and 1 more and Rajeev in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates, BH Bahrain.
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: ‘striped’, the name of a species of fish and of the blue lotus.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rajiv 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #69 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Rajib | 98 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Rajib | 72 |
| US United States | — | 2,987 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Rajiv | 337 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #338 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Rajeev | 84 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Rajib | 16 |
| BH Bahrain | #92 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Rajeev | 17 |
| KW Kuwait | #536 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Rajeev | 21 |
| SG Singapore | #506 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Rajiv | 56 |
| QA Qatar | #357 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Rajib | 27 |
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. 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)Rajiv 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 English, pers. name, India
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit of Indian usage.
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)- Rajiv Gandhib. 1944INPrime Minister of India (1984-1989)
- Rajiv Raib. 1955INIndian film director
- Rajiv Anchalb. 1956INIndian film director
- Rajiv Kapoorb. 1962INIndian actor (1962–2021)
- Rajiv Menonb. 1963INIndian director
- Rajiv Shahb. 1973USAmerican government official (born 1973)
- Rajiv Josephb. 1974USAmerican writer
- Rajeev Satavb. 1974INnot in their usual nameIndian politician
- Rajiv Ousephb. 1986GBbadminton player
- Rajiv van La Parrab. 1991NLDutch association football 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)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #5,658 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Rajiv mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘striped’, the name of a species of fish and of the blue lotus. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Rajiv?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑˈdʒiv/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Rajiv a male or female name?
- Rajiv is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Rajiv have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 152 thousand people named Rajib in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Rajiv?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,987 people named Rajiv in 2020, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Rajiv compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Rajiv is the 69th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rajivThe 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, “Rajiv” — the 69th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.