Rasa

given name · Lithuanian · Latin script

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

Rasa is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit.

rarermore common
  • LTLithuania1 in 120◐
  • SYSyria1 in 7.5K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 139K

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

≈25K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
137 ●

24K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 120 ◐

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts●

RasaLatin · Lithuanian●79K records
РасаCyrillic · Russian●609 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Raşa in SY Syria, TR Türkiye, IQ Iraq and Раса in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.

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●

recorded in German

weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit. rasa »Tau«).

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Rasa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania#3622,707△4.1K rec.1 in 12023KRasa128
SY Syria#8714,4484.5K rec.——Raşa5
TR Türkiye—2,4402.7K rec.——Raşa10
GB United Kingdom—1,4911.2K rec.——Rasa65
RU Russia—854620 rec.——Раса69
US United States—6446.2K rec.1 in 517K644Rasa137
DE Germany—614705 rec.——Rasa68
LV Latvia#846576△102 rec.1 in 3.3K577Rasa25
NO Norway—351△103 rec.1 in 16K1.4KRasa24
AU Australia—313440 rec.——Rasa50
IN India—277406 rec.—183Rasa24
BR Brazil—209△100 rec.1 in 1M698Rasa25

Roughly 23K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 120). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Lithuanian79K71%
  • Hindi13K11%
  • English4.5K4%
  • Portuguese3K3%
  • Spanish1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Lithuanian79,24571%
Hindi12,61811%
English4,4544%
Portuguese3,0043%
Spanish1,6231%

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◐

Rasa is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.9K records spelled Rasa13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, United States

    Also written Raas, Raşa, Rasá, Rãša, Rasà

  • Finnish given name1.7K records spelled Rasa12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, India, Netherlands

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Raas, Raşa, Rääs, Räsä, Rasà

  • Indonesian given name1.6K records spelled Rasa13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Raşa, Raas, Ràsà, Rasà, Řẫsặ

  • a separate given name1.3K records spelled Rasa11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Raša, Rasā, Rašā, Řasa, Raşa

  • French given name1.2K records spelled Rasa9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Raas, Raşa, Rääs, Raãs, Rąså

  • Sinhala given name841 records spelled Rasa14 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Risi, Russ, රස, Raşa, Rūss

  • Thai surname641 records spelled Rasa10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Raza, ราซา, Raşa, ราซ่า, ̶r̶a̶z̶a̶

48 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●

Rasa 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 Slovenian, race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)

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

  • In English, An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.

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

  • In Latvian, dew (moisture in the air that settles on plants in the morning)

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

  • In French, third-person singular past historic of raser

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

  • In vec, resin, viscous secretion of conifers

    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●

02550751001920194019601980200089 · 1965

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Rasa in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1912–2015
Yearrecords
19121
19171
19181
19191
19203
19222
19231
19241
19253
19263
19275
19282
19293
19303
19314
19326
19336
193413
19359
193613
193718
193822
193913
194023
194122
194227
194322
194449
194532
194635
194731
194833
194931
195057
195147
195259
195353
195460
195551
195650
195764
195864
195966
196067
196165
196268
196355
196476
196589
196669
196781
196881
196950
197078
197157
197277
197358
197470
197577
197660
197752
197859
197953
198047
198164
198258
198345
198458
198553
198649
198744
198852
198954
199057
199151
199260
199346
199449
199539
199615
199727
199819
200817
20091
201012
201111
20124
20132
201419
20153

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 90 years between 1912–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Rasa von Werder, b. 1945Rasa Juknevičienė, b. 1958Rasa Budbergytė, b. 1960Rasa Polikevičiūtė, b. 1970Rasa Marazaitė, b. 1975Rasa Samuolytė, b. 1975Rasa Mažeikytė, b. 1976Raša Sraka, b. 1979Rasa Drazdauskaitė, b. 1981Rasa Leleivytė, b. 1988

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 60 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Rasa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—23K#24
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai—23K#24
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.4K#1,338
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—698#11,624
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020644#16,155
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—577#559
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—576—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—424#7,922
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020379#57,938
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025351—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000311#60,557
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010301#65,782

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 471 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rasa?
We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Rasa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Rasa have the most bearers?
We estimate about 23 thousand people bear Rasa in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rasa.
Where is Rasa most common?
Rasa is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 120 people carrying it.
How common is Rasa compared with other names?
In Lithuania, Rasa is the 36th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
Is Rasa a male or female name?
Rasa 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 Rasa mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit.
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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, “Rasa” — the 36th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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