Riju
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Riju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M
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 Riju itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 named Ruji, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ruji in BD Bangladesh, US United States.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Riju 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Ruji | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Riju | 5 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | 175 | Ruji | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | 6 | Riju | 7 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 19 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1as Rizu | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Riju is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In scn, Reggio Calabria (a city in Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmb, Dente
as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #86,349 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Riju a male or female name?
- Riju is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Riju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Ruji in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Riju most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riju is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Riju?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7 people named Riju in 2026, about 1 in 5.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Riju?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rijuThe 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, “Riju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.