Rakan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rakan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 1.4K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rakan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #182 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Rakan | 133 |
| JO Jordan | #429 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Rakan | 75 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Rakan | 23 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Rakan | 16 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Rakan | 37 |
| US United States | — | 595 | 1 in 559K | 595 | Rakan | 131 |
| KW Kuwait | #542 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Rakan | 53 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Rakan | 61 |
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)
Rakan 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 Malay, friend (person whose company one enjoys)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of rakka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of raka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A Japanese arhat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ums, to boil food
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Rakan Alirezab. 1996Saudi Arabian cross-country skier
- Rakan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1999SAGovernor of Diriyah Governorate since 2026
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 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 595 | #18,182 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 83 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- Is Rakan a male or female name?
- Rakan 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 Rakan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Rakan in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rakan.
- How do you pronounce Rakan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəkən/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- How common is the name Rakan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 595 people named Rakan in 2020, about 1 in 559 thousand residents.
- How common is Rakan compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Rakan is the 182nd most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rakan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rakanThe 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, “Rakan” — the 182nd most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.