Roga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɾoɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 134K
- CLChile≈1 in 145K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈820 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Roga | 14 |
| LV Latvia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Roga | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 165 | 1 in 276K | 165 | Roga | 26 |
| PL Poland | 147 | 1 in 260K | 75 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 145K | 1 | Roga | 20 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Roga is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, petition of help for an agricultural work, usually for food and reciprocity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of rogō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, genitive singular of rog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to bewitch, enchant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kinyarwanda, bewitch, enchant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, illness, disease
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)
- Błażej Rogab. 1895PLPolish chemist
- Aleksandrs Rogab. 1896LVLatvian association football player (1898-1945)
- Maria Roga-Skąpskab. 1932PLPolish painter
- Vigo Rogab. 1967LVLatvian actor
- Indra Rogab. 1968LVLatvian actor
- Wojciech RogaPLoptical engineer
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 165 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 75 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 75 | #37,583 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 72 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 72 | #38,282 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Roga?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾoɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Roga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 817 people named Roga in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roga.
- How common is the name Roga?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 165 people named Roga, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Roga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rogaThe 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, “Roga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.