Raud
surname · Latin script
Meaning: iron
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʀo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raud is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia1 in 2.1K
- FIFinland1 in 32K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
iron
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raud 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Raud is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by rød
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, third-person singular/plural present indicative of raudāt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, having the colour red
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)
- Kristjan Raudb. 1865EEEstonian artist (1865-1943)
- Paul Raudb. 1865EEEstonian artist (1865-1930)
- Gustav Raudb. 1902EEEstonian sculptor (1902-1968)
- Mart Raudb. 1903EEEstonian poet (1903–1980)
- Ilmar Raudb. 1913EEEstonian chess player (1913-1941)
- Eno Raudb. 1928EEEstonian writer (1928–1996)
- Anu Raudb. 1943EEEstonian textile artist, writer and university teacher (born 1943)
- Rein Raudb. 1961EEEstonian writer, academic (born 1961)
- Mihkel Raudb. 1969EEEstonian writer, musician, journalist and politician (born 1969)
- Piret Raudb. 1971EEEstonian writer and painter (born 1971)
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 581 | #52 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 581 | #41 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 545 | #50 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 254 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 219 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 211 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 210 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 197 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 191 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 174 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 172 | #8,382 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 168 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Raud mean, and where does it come from?
- iron Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Raud?
- A machine transcription gives /ʀo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Raud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Raud in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raud.
- Where is Raud most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raud is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Raud?
- In Estonia, the national register counted 581 people named Raud, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raudThe 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, “Raud”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.