Rajna

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rayna in US United States, ES Spain, CA Canada and 6 more, Raina in BR Brazil, AU Australia, DE Germany and 5 more, ไร่นา in TH Thailand and Reina in LA Laos.

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●

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◐

Rajna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Bulgarian given name2.8K records spelled Rajna61 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, Croatia, Ukraine

  Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Croatian

  Also written Rayna, Райна, Раина, Раїна, Рајна

• a separate given name430 records spelled Rajna2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Raǰna

34 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●

Rajna is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, var of Raina.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Hungarian, Rhine (river that flows through Europe)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Maltese, first-person plural perfect of ra

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 83 years between 1920–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rayna Knyaginyab. 1856BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian teacher and revolutionary (1856-1917)
• Rayna Petkovab. 1895BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian social worker
• Rayna Kasabovab. 1897BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian air force pilot
• Kalina Malinab. 1898BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian children writer
• Rayna Katsarovab. 1901BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian ethnomusicologist
• Rayna Delibashevab. 1909BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian architect
• Raina Kabaivanskab. 1934BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian opera singer
• Rayna Gavrilovab. 1957BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian historian
• Rajna Dragićevićb. 1968RSSerbian linguist, lexicologist, and lexicographer
• Raynab. 1981BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer

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 · 277 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rajna?

We estimate roughly 33 thousand people bear Rajna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Rajna have the most bearers?

Rajna is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rajna.

Where is Rajna most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rajna is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

Is Rajna a male or female name?

Rajna is a female 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 Rajna mean?

Recorded meaning: Rhine