Râja

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Râja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 20th most common given name. Recorded meaning: table Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai), from Proto-Slavic *krajь.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 94K(measured from records)
  • BHBahrain≈1 in 418K
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 2.1M

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,542 people, 2020

Sources
176 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Raja in US United States, PK Pakistan, BH Bahrain.

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(measured from records)

Derivation of Râja: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Râja
  1. Old East Slavicкраиkrai(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Slavic*krajь(measured from records)

table Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai), from Proto-Slavic *krajь. The same word was also borrowed into other Finnic languages, such as Estonian raja, Ingrian raja, Karelian raja, Ludian raja, Votic raja.

Sources 9

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Râja 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.

Where Râja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,5421 in 94K3.8KRaja176
ES Spain—5151 in 97K1.8K—27
SE Sweden—3841 in 27K384—19
DK Denmark—1921 in 31K217—1
PK Pakistan#968≈110 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Raja75
LV Latvia—761 in 25K76——
AL Albania—641 in 48K54——
GY Guyana—181 in 42K18——
BH Bahrain#20≈4 est.≈1 in 418K—Raja29

3,542 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Râja is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Raja, Raja', Rājā, Rāja, Rajà

  • French given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, India, Belgium

    Also written Raja, Ràjà, Râjâ, Rajâ, Räjä

  • Croatian given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Serbia, Pakistan

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Raja, Раја, Rãja, Ràjã, Ŕajá

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Râja under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Râja mean, and where does it come from?
table Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai), from Proto-Slavic *krajь. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 7 other sources.
Is Râja a male or female name?
Râja 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 Râja have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Râja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raja.
Where is Râja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Râja is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Râja?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,542 people named Râja in 2020, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
How common is Râja compared with other names?
In Bahrain, Râja is the 20th most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.

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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, “Râja” — the 20th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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