Raina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante liée à Regina/Reine; du latin regina, « reine »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹeɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 15Kas Reina(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 28K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 46K
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 Raina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
22,833 named Reina, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rayna in US United States, ID Indonesia, BD Bangladesh.
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)
Variante liée à Regina/Reine; du latin regina, « reine ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 22,833as Reina | 1 in 15K | 23K | Rayna | 342 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Rayna | 59 |
| EC Ecuador | 4,892as Reina | 1 in 3.5K | 7.7K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 2,642 | 1 in 80K | 2.7K | — | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Rayna | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Raina | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1,242as Reina | 1 in 4.1K | 1.2K | — | — |
| AL Albania | 800as Reina | 1 in 3.8K | 800 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 340as Rajna | 1 in 12K | 340 | — | 1 |
22,833 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling reina. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Raina 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.
Fuerte, poderosa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Polish and Czech form of REGINA , also sometimes used in the English-speaking world, to which it was introduced by George Bernard Shaw, as the name of a character in Arms and the Man (1894).
as a word
In French, third-person singular past historic of rainer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, strip, band (long, flat piece of material)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, worn out piece of clothing
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(measured from records)
- Regina Wiśniowieckab. 1589ROnot in their usual namePolish noble lady from Moldavia
- Rayna Knyaginyab. 1856BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian teacher and revolutionary (1856-1917)
- Rayna Kasabovab. 1897BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian air force pilot
- Kalina Malinab. 1898BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian children writer
- Rayna Katsarovab. 1901BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian ethnomusicologist
- Rayna Delibashevab. 1909BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian architect
- Raina Kabaivanskab. 1934BGBulgarian opera singer
- Raina Telgemeierb. 1977USAmerican cartoonist, illustrator and writer
- Raynab. 1981BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
- Raina Heinb. 1987USUS fashion model
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 982 | #26,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 641 | #35,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 377 | #51,809 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- What does the name Raina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante liée à Regina/Reine; du latin regina, « reine ».
- What are other forms of the name Raina?
- In the etymology graph, Regina, Reyna and Reina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Raina a male or female name?
- Raina 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.
- How do you pronounce Raina?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹeɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Raina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Reina, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Raina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,642 people named Raina in 2022, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Raina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rainaThe 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, “Raina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.