Rasa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rɐsɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rasa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 156(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 7.6K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 143K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Raşa in SY Syria, TR Türkiye.
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)
weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit. rasa »Tau«).
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rasa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #12 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 156 | 23K | Rasa | 135 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Raşa | 7 |
| US United States | — | 703 | 1 in 473K | 644 | Rasa | 159 |
| LV Latvia | — | 576 | 1 in 3.3K | 577 | Rasa | 30 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Raşa | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 351 | 1 in 16K | 1.4K | Rasa | 25 |
| DK Denmark | — | 142 | 1 in 41K | 142 | — | — |
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: Registrų centras — top-50 given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rasa von Werderb. 1945DEAmerican bodybuilder and sex worker
- Rasa Juknevičienėb. 1958LTLithuanian politician (born 1958)
- Rasa Budbergytėb. 1960LTLithuanian politician
- Rasa Polikevičiūtėb. 1970LTLithuanian cyclist
- Rasa Marazaitėb. 1975LTactress
- Rasa Samuolytėb. 1975LTLithuanian actor
- Rasa Mažeikytėb. 1976LTLithuanian bicycle racer
- Raša Srakab. 1979SISlovenian judoka
- Rasa Drazdauskaitėb. 1981LTLithuanian marathon runner
- Rasa Leleivytėb. 1988LTLithuanian cyclist
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 62 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 379 | #57,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 311 | #60,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 301 | #65,782 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,042 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #53,684 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Rasa mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (lit.
- What are other forms of the name Rasa?
- In the etymology graph, Rosa and Rositsa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rasa?
- A machine transcription gives /rɐsɐ/ (IPA) for Lithuanian.
- 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.
- In which country does Rasa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Rasa in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rasa.
- How common is the name Rasa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 703 people named Rasa in 2020, about 1 in 473 thousand residents.
- How common is Rasa compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Rasa is the 12th most common given name of 5,944 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/rasaThe 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, “Rasa” — the 12th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.