Raj

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Raj is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘king’, applied to various gods, for example Varuna, Aditya, Indra, and Yama.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 190◐
  • INIndia1 in 286
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 2.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.8K ●

across 5 countries

#203 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
360 ●

5.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 27K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

RajLatin · Hindi●4.7M records
রাজBengali · Bangla●2.3K records
ରାଜOdia · Odia●138 records
ᲠაჯუGeorgian · Georgian●26 records
라자Hangul · Korean●4 records
రాజTelugu · Telugu●2 records
රජSinhala · Sinhala●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Raza in PK Pakistan, ES Spain, AU Australia and 8 more, Raju in BD Bangladesh, SA Saudi Arabia, NP Nepal and 6 more and Raja in MA Morocco.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sanskrit: ‘king’, applied to various gods, for example Varuna, Aditya, Indra, and Yama. It is aname of Yudhisthira, the eldest Pandava prince in the Mahabharata.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Raj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#811,247,9365.2M rec.—81KRaj295
PK Pakistan#107300,14738K rec.—listedRaza156
GB United Kingdom#80930,26920K rec.—3Raj154
MY Malaysia#18522,81732K rec.——Raj87
BD Bangladesh#39915,39727K rec.—listedRaju87
SA Saudi Arabia#1576,6111.4K rec.——Raju39
US United States—6,553169K rec.1 in 51K6.6KRaj360
CA Canada—6,3088.8K rec.—2Raj135
AU Australia—4,6197.6K rec.—1Raza108
PE Peru—4,5834.6K rec.——Raza35
PH Philippines—4,3364.3K rec.——Raza31
SG Singapore#1993,26611K rec.——Raj82

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi4.7M70%
  • 1.3M19%
  • English243K4%
  • Bangla84K1%
  • Telugu69K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi4,721,10170%
1,313,76619%
English242,7714%
Bangla84,4321%
Telugu68,8631%

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◐

Raj is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.8M records spelled Raj2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Rāj

  • English given name406K records spelled Raj38 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Raej, Ra-J, Räj, Râj, Řãj

  • Hindi given name32K records spelled Raj91 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Nigeria

    Languages: Hindi, Thai, Khmer

    Also written Raji, รุจี, Ruchi, Rujee, Light

  • Spanish given name29K records spelled Raj27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rãj, Ráj, Râj, Räj, Řãj

  • Polish surname12K records spelled Raj178 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, India, Russia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Рей, Rej, Rai, Ray, Рэй

67 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●

Raj 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 English, Hindu name from Sanskrit raja ‘king’.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In sit-pro, wait, linger

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In mh, whale

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Rajasthani.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hungarian, swarm, (of birds) flock

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

05K10K15K20K19001950200019K · 1983

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Raj in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1893–2017
Yearrecords
18931
189920
19004
19019
19051
19061
19071
19082
19091
19112
19122
19137
191412
19157
191624
191729
191828
191945
1920126
192145
1922111
1923164
1924135
1925122
1926156
1927234
1928274
1929466
1930316
1931382
1932684
1933527
1934949
1935722
1936871
19371,062
19381,017
19391,436
19401,202
19411,300
19422,017
19431,524
19442,543
19452,167
19462,713
19472,866
19482,303
19493,018
19503,145
19513,206
19524,704
19533,275
19545,333
19554,616
19565,330
19576,824
19586,616
19599,125
19607,782
19617,560
196211,968
19639,402
196412,958
196511,444
196613,448
196714,912
196813,438
196914,970
197016,450
197114,672
197218,071
197316,728
197417,243
197516,729
197618,352
197714,870
197814,779
197914,773
198012,357
198115,596
198218,779
198318,935
198418,787
198517,338
198613,823
198717,161
198815,634
198914,906
199015,250
199116,769
199217,600
199318,376
199414,792
199512,489
19967,323
19976,674
19984,589
1999634
200031
200126
200210
20031
20041
20051
20061
200758
20082,001
200924
2010902
2011379
2012294
2013241
20143,556
2015720
20164
201732

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 116 years between 1893–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Raj Singh I, b. 1629Raj Chandra Bose, b. 1901Mulk Raj Anand, b. 1905Raj Kapoor, b. 1924Raj Khosla, b. 1925Raj Reddy, b. 1937Raj Babbar, b. 1952Aditya Raj Kapoor, b. 1956Raj Kundra, b. 1975Raj Chetty, b. 1979

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●

Attested in 65 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Raj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—81K#214
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.6K#3,015
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.1K#7,826
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.7K#11,728
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#17,935
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020874#3,015
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026806—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—806#3,850
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026794—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—794#4,008
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—358#2,462
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026294#460

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 465 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Raj?
We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Raj (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Raj have the most bearers?
Raj is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled raj.
How common is Raj compared with other names?
In India, Raj is the 8th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Raj a male or female name?
Raj 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 Raj mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘king’, applied to various gods, for example Varuna, Aditya, Indra, and Yama.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Raj” — the 8th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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