Rakusa
surname · Latin script
/ʁakʊza/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rakusa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 70K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.3M
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.
- Slovenia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia, 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 Rakuša in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rakusa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Rakuša | 8 |
| HR Croatia | 60 | 1 in 70K | 60 | Rakuša | 13 |
| DE Germany | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Rakusa | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Rakusa | 4 |
| US United States | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 56M | listed | Rakusa | 15 |
| AT Austria | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Rakusa | 4 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Stanisław Rakusa-Suszczewskib. 1938PLPolish biologist
- Ilma Rakusab. 1946CHSwiss writer, translator (born 1946)
- Mikołaj Rakusa-Suszczewskib. 1971PLPolish sociologist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Rakusa?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁakʊza/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Rakusa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 124 people named Rakusa in Slovenia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rakuša.
- How common is the name Rakusa?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 60 people named Rakusa in 2021, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rakusa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rakusaThe 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, “Rakusa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.