Raïs
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
Raïs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 28K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 37Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Raïs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rais in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Diffuso sporadicamente in Sicilia e in Sardegna, con pit alta frequenza a Cagliari e nel Campidano, é la cognominizzazione del nome _ tecnico di mestiere rdis (in siciliano rdaisi), “capobarca” e, in particolare, “chi dirige le operazioni di pesca nelle tonnare”, che é un antico prestito dall’arabo ra’is “capo, comandante”.
Cited for this meaning 7
- African Muslim Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The African book of names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Raïs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | 1.9K | Rais | 94 |
| PK Pakistan | #765 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Rais | 38 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Rais | 34 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Rais | 25 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Rais | 52 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Rais | 25 |
| AL Albania | — | 251as Rois | 1 in 12K | 251 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 161 | 1 in 2.1M | 1.7K | Rais | 171 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rais Rəsulzadəb. 1946AZAzerbaijani painter
- Raïs M'Bolhib. 1986FRAlgerian and French association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Raïs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 158 thousand people named Raïs in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rais.
- How common is the name Raïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 161 people named Raïs in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Raïs compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Raïs is the 765th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ra%C3%AFsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Raïs” — the 765th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.