Raju
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of raya or abbreviation of any of various compound names with Rajaas first element
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Raju is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 600(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.5K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.6K
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 Raju itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #182 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 598 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Raja in PK Pakistan, TN Tunisia and Raj in MY Malaysia.
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)Variant of raya or abbreviation of any of various compound names with Rajaas first element.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Raju 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #3 | ≈2,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 598 | 81K | Raju | 318 |
| PK Pakistan | #102 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 706 | listed | Raja | 126 |
| BD Bangladesh | #32 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Raju | 91 |
| MY Malaysia | #257 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 983 | — | Raj | 91 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #92 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Raju | 40 |
| TN Tunisia | #877 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 826 | — | Raja | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #891 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 956 | — | Raju | 35 |
| PL Poland | — | 206 | 1 in 186K | 806 | — | 2 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Raju is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, fierce, violent (involving extreme force or motion)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, genitive/locative/vocative singular of raj
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, fierce, severe, hard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, fierce
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)- Krishnam Rajub. 1940INIndian actor (1940-2022)
- Raju Patelb. 1960KEfilm producer
- Raju Narisettib. 1966INdigital media content executive
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Raju a male or female name?
- Raju is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Raju mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of raya or abbreviation of any of various compound names with Rajaas first element. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Raju?
- In the etymology graph, Raja is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Raju?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 million people named Raju in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raju. After it come Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Raju?
- In Poland, the national register counted 206 people named Raju in 2026, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Raju compared with other names?
- In India, Raju is the 3rd most common given name of 3,760,348 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/rajuThe 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, “Raju” — the 3rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.