Raza

surname · Urdu · Latin script

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

Raza is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pleasure; approval; contentment.

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 Raju in BD Bangladesh, SA Saudi Arabia, NP Nepal and 6 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●

pleasure; approval; contentment

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Raza 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●

  • Urdu337K49%
  • Hindi142K21%
  • 68K10%
  • English50K7%
  • Arabic18K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu337,37649%
Hindi142,18121%
68,23310%
English50,4417%
Arabic17,5513%

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◐

Raza is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname75K records spelled Raza5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Ecuador

    Also written Razā, Raz̤ā, Ráža, Raẓā

  • French surname7.6K records spelled Raza6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ráza, Řaza, Razà, Ràzá

  • Slovak surname2.8K records spelled Raza12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, United Kingdom, India, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Raža, Ráža, Ráza, Řažą, Ŗäẓẫ

  • Sinhala surname1.8K records spelled Raza2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Râzá

50 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●

Raza 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 Kurdish, Secret, as well as one who represents ornament, elegance, and mysterious beauty

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Asturian, 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 Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of rază

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

  • In bny, toward the interior, away from the sea

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Polish, Middle Polish form of raz

    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●

020406019001950200043 · 1958

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Raza in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1878–2024
Yearrecords
18781
18811
18851
18871
18881
18903
18932
18951
18963
18972
18983
18991
19002
19011
19023
19037
19043
19055
19062
19071
19082
19091
19108
19117
19121
19132
19145
191513
19165
19173
19185
19191
192012
192111
19229
19238
19248
192510
19265
192711
192813
19297
193019
193115
193223
193319
193419
193517
193622
193718
193816
193913
194028
194114
194222
194322
194422
194525
194623
194730
194833
194934
195036
195124
195224
195340
195434
195538
195629
195726
195843
195926
196025
196134
196224
196320
196429
196519
196632
196727
196829
196920
197017
197118
197215
197316
197417
197516
197617
197712
197812
197917
198011
198114
19826
19839
19847
198516
19866
19875
19885
19896
19905
19916
19929
19936
19948
19953
19966
19976
19985
19991
20005
20015
20022
20035
20042
20051
20066
20071
200810
20098
20102
20115
20122
20134
20143
20154
20163
20172
20182
20201
20231
20241

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 134 years between 1878–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

17001800190020002100Roustam Raza, b. 1783Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, b. 1856Akhtar Raza Khan, b. 1943Shaheen Raza, b. 1954Gauhar Raza, b. 1956Avar Raza, b. 1987Star Wars Kid, b. 1988Shahida Raza, b. 1993Maulana Kaif Raza Khan, b. 2001

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 Raza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.9K#6,635
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.4K#9,583
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#14,006
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.8K#3,350
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.7K#2,757
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.7K#2,755
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.6K#495
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020802#13,280
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—700#1,779
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—458#2,015
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025350—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—239#2,043

Reference works 6

  • 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
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 502 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Raza?
We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Raza (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Raza have the most bearers?
Raza is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled raj.
How common is Raza compared with other names?
In India, Raza is the 8th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Raza mean?
Recorded meaning: pleasure; approval; contentment
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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, “Raza” — the 8th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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