Raja
Raja reached its high-water mark in 2001 at number 2,618, and has been recorded 1,240 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 1,200 Rajas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Raja boys named Raja
Girls and boys called Raja
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 376 girls and 864 boys in all, and in 2019 the split was 10 to 19.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 20 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,240
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 2,618th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1967
- Girls / boys
- 376 / 864
How old the living Rajas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,240 babies given the name since 1967, about 1,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rajas
- Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906)Indian painter from Kerala
- Raja Gosnell (born 1958)American film editor and director
- Raja Birbal (1528–1586)Mughal advisor at Akbar's court, appearing in many folk tales which focus on his wit
- Raja Rao (1908–2006)Indian-born English writer
- Raja Bell (born 1976)American basketball player
- Raja Chari (born 1977)American astronaut
- Raja Krishnamoorthi (born 1973)American lawyer and politician
- Raja Ramanna (1925–2004)Indian nuclear scientist
People named Raja with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Raja is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Raja is most concentrated in New York (6.2×), California (5.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Raja peaked:
Raja elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Raja | 1,426 | 312th |
| France girls | Raja | 1,035 | 562nd |
| Switzerland girls | Raja | 76 | 721st |
| Scotland boys | Raja | 31 | 448th |
| France boys | Raja | 20 | 3,800th |
| Poland girls | Raja | 6 birth registrations | 570th |
| Belgium girls | Raja | 5 | 1,192nd |
| England and Wales girls | Raja | 4 | 3,970th |
| Ireland boys | Raja | 3 | 701st |
| Poland boys | Raja | 2 birth registrations | 732nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Raja: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Raja | 70 | 0.006% | 824th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Raja | 4 | 0.001% | 617th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Raja | 2 | 0.003% | 116th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Raja among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Raja | 12 | 14 |
| Finland boys | Raja | 8 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Raja lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 515 women called Raja were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almería | Raja | 51 | 0.135 | 644 |
| Teruel | Raja | 6 | 0.090 | 745 |
| Murcia | Raja | 68 | 0.086 | 797 |
| Lleida | Raja | 12 | 0.054 | 1,175 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Raja | 17 | 0.054 | 1,175 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Raja | 55 | 0.054 | 1,271 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Raja against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.