Raju

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Raju 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: Variant of raya or abbreviation of any of various compound names with Rajaas first element.

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

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Raza in PK Pakistan, ES Spain, AU Australia and 8 more, Raj in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 4 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●

Variant of raya or abbreviation of any of various compound names with Rajaas first element.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Raju 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●

  • Hindi4.4M81%
  • 565K10%
  • Bangla97K2%
  • English72K1%
  • Indonesian49K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi4,374,05281%
564,81010%
Bangla96,9762%
English71,5931%
Indonesian48,9341%

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◐

Raju is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name729K records spelled Raju3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Rāju, Rājū

  • Spanish given name24K records spelled Raju12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, France, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Rãjú, Råju, Råjü, Rajü, Řajû

  • Thai given name13K records spelled Raju28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Raj, Rat, ราจี, Rajee, ราจ

  • Finnish given name5.5K records spelled Raju4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Řăjů

  • Marathi given name4.2K records spelled Raju2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Rājū

  • German given name3.0K records spelled Raju3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Germany, United States, Austria

    Also written Rãjû, Rājū

  • Polish given name2.4K records spelled Raju10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, India, United States, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Řąjų, Ŕäjū, Řâjû, Řájú, Ŕájù

  • Amharic given name2.1K records spelled Raju5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, United States

    Also written ራጁ, Reju, ራጁእ, ረጁ

32 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●

Raju is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, fierce, violent (involving extreme force or motion)

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

  • In Polish, genitive/locative/vocative singular of raj

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

  • In urj-fin-pro, fierce, severe, hard

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

  • In izh, fierce

    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●

010K20K30K40K19001920194019601980200035K · 1984

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Raju in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189923
19001
19011
19082
19091
19101
19131
19141
19153
191613
19172
191824
191923
1920131
192138
192266
1923224
192472
192552
192629
192720
192829
192942
193024
193154
193251
193350
193466
193552
193685
193793
193886
1939119
194099
1941182
1942155
1943168
1944216
1945221
1946287
1947291
1948274
1949314
1950358
1951475
1952556
1953456
1954684
1955676
1956899
19571,031
19581,185
19591,697
19601,668
19612,222
19623,107
19633,070
19644,239
19654,490
19665,777
19676,444
19687,102
19698,587
19709,843
197110,628
197213,132
197313,440
197414,048
197515,482
197618,416
197716,998
197818,142
197918,987
198018,079
198123,858
198231,271
198332,788
198435,356
198534,014
198627,116
198732,573
198829,758
198927,876
199027,715
199128,896
199229,151
199328,966
199423,935
199518,517
199610,295
19979,803
19986,127
1999726
200020
200120
200210
20032
20061
20075
20082,198
20093
20101,115
201146
201292
2013198
20145,882
20151,053
20165
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Poola Tirupati Raju, b. 1904Krishnam Raju, b. 1940Raju Sundaram, b. 1948Raju Kher, b. 1957Raju Patel, b. 1960Raju Kaji Shakya, b. 1960Raju Srivastav, b. 1963Raju Narisetti, b. 1966Raju Shrestha, b. 1966Raju Singh, b. 1969

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 46 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Raju
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—51K#12
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—42K#355
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198435K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198534K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198333K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198733K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198231K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,165
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,560
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,098
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,898
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026206#1,263

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 · 298 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Raju?
We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Raju (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Raju have the most bearers?
Raju is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled raj.
How common is Raju compared with other names?
In India, Raju is the 8th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Raju a male or female name?
Raju 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 Raju mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of raya or abbreviation of any of various compound names with Rajaas first element.
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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, “Raju” — the 8th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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