Razana
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Elders or ancestors, in the traditional religion of Madagascar, who are seen as a source of spiritual advice
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/razana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Razana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 8.8M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.8M (inferred from the name graph)
24 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
calm, composure, self-possession
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
How Razana is read(measured from records)
Razana is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Malay53%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Razana in Malay.
- English16%
Elders or ancestors, in the traditional religion of Madagascar, who are seen as a source of spiritual advice.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Razana in Hindi.
- Arabic7.1%
calm, composure, self-possession
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Razana 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.
24 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); the african-names-stewart-1993 register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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)
Razana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malagasy, Malagasy: 'ancestors'
as a nameAfrican Names
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.
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 24 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #109,849 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #25,698 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #25,699 |
| NG Nigeria | African Names (Julia Stewart, 1993) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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
- Where does the name Razana come from?
- calm, composure, self-possession Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Razana?
- A machine transcription gives /razana/ (IPA) for Malay.
- What does the name Razana mean?
- In English, Elders or ancestors, in the traditional religion of Madagascar, who are seen as a source of spiritual advice.
- Is Razana a male or female name?
- Razana is a female 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 Razana have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 24 people named Razana, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Razana most common?
- Razana is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Razana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 24 people named Razana in 2022, about 1 in 8.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/razanaThe 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, “Razana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.