Reja
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Reja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: grate, grating, grille.
- INIndia1 in 1M(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 17K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 93K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,319 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
grate, grating, grille
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reja 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.
1,319 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Reja 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 Polish, spreader, yard (horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, growing, rearing (of animals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of reger:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In liv, rake
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Saturna pavadonis ("Rhea"), vidējais attālums no planētas - 527100 km, izmēri - 1528 km
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Ivanka Veronika Rejab. 1904ITSlovenian teacher, headmistress, and superior general
- Jurij Rejab. 1936SISlovenian opera singer (1936-2021)
- Edoardo Rejab. 1945ITItalian association football player and manager
- Magda Rejab. 1960SISlovenian writer
- Matic Rejab. 1995SISlovenian footballer
- Samo RejaSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.3K | #4,416 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 221 | #15,355 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 221 | #15,328 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 123 | #3,662 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 53 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 53 | #47,957 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 51 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 51 | #49,780 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 45 | #6,425 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 35 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Reja mean, and where does it come from?
- grate, grating, grille Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Reja have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Reja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reja.
- Where is Reja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reja is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Reja?
- In India, the national register counted 1,319 people named Reja, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rejaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Reja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.