Raimond

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

• German given name2.0K records spelled Raimond2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, United States, Austria

  Also written Raímond

• a separate given name530 records spelled Raimond2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Raĭmond

• Polish given name321 records spelled Raimond117 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Poland, Czechia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Spanish

  Also written Raymond, Raimon, Ramon, Раймонд, Рамон

47 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses●

Raimond 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 German, männl. Vom., Variante von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provenceb. 1114FRnot in their usual nameFrench noble
• Raimond de Turenneb. 1352FRFrench aristocrat
• Raimond Valgreb. 1913EEEstonian musician (1913–1949)
• Raimond Castaingb. 1921FRFrench physicist (1921–1998)
• Raimond Gaitab. 1946AUAustralian philosopher
• Raimond Lapb. 1959NLDutch singer
• Raimond Aumannb. 1963DEGerman footballer
• Raimond van der Gouwb. 1963NLDutch association football player
• Raimond Kaljulaidb. 1982EEEstonian politician (born 1982)
• Raimond SpekkingDEWikipedian and OpenStreetMap mapper from Cologne, Open Data activist

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 166 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Raimond?

We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Raimond (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Raimond have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.4 thousand people bear Raimond in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled raimond.

Where is Raimond most common?

Raimond is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.

Is Raimond a male or female name?

Raimond 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.

What does the name Raimond mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Occitan, of historical usage, equivalent to English Raymond