Rasel

given name · Bangla · Latin script

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

Rasel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Kurzform eines Rufnamens mit ahd.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 569◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 57K

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

≈203K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
123 ●

50K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

RaselLatin · Bangla●259K records
রাসেলBengali · Bangla●1.8K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Russell in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more and Raşel in TR Türkiye.

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

Patronym zu Kurzform eines Rufnamens mit ahd. rāt, altsächs. rād; 144 Träger.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Rasel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#47499,14324K rec.——Rasel103
US United States—202,342△17K rec.1 in 1.6K222KRussell123
IN India—4,5291.6K rec.—23Rasel38
GB United Kingdom—2,3493.3K rec.—4Russell63
MY Malaysia—1,139674 rec.——Rasel15
SG Singapore#993476835 rec.——Rasel14
PH Philippines—472317 rec.——Rasel15
CA Canada—208431 rec.—17Russell32
ZA South Africa—206286 rec.——Russell12
IT Italy—205306 rec.—1Rasel6
SE Sweden—173△8 rec.1 in 59K173—2
AU Australia—129205 rec.—75Rasel21

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Languages●

  • Bangla259K51%
  • English243K47%
  • Arabic2.6K1%
  • Hindi2.1K1%
  • Spanish1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bangla258,79351%
English242,89347%
Arabic2,6501%
Hindi2,1301%
Spanish1,1601%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name1.8K records spelled Rasel5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Raşel, Râsêl

  • Thai given name1.1K records spelled Rasel8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Italy, Malaysia

    Also written ราเซล, ราเซิล, LAselL, Raşel, Rasen

  • Malay given name962 records spelled Rasel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Raşel

  • French given name950 records spelled Rasel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Raşel, Rasél

  • a separate given name344 records spelled Rasel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Rašel, Raşel

  • Polish given name312 records spelled Rasel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Raşel

  • Turkish given name118 records spelled Rasel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Philippines, Syria, India

    Also written Raşel

36 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●

Rasel 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 Welsh, razor

    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.

Notable people with this name●

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 32 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Rasel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020177#107,024
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010141#122,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000104#146,011
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—65#34,899
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—51#27,372
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—37#16,505
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—33#60,159
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—33#58,864
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202631—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—31#68,675
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#16,281
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202624#5,730

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rasel?
We estimate roughly 203 thousand people bear Rasel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Rasel have the most bearers?
Rasel is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled rasel.
How common is Rasel compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Rasel is the 47th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Rasel a male or female name?
Rasel 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 Rasel mean?
Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Kurzform eines Rufnamens mit ahd.
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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, “Rasel” — the 47th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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