Raza

At the 2020 census, 4,891 Americans bore the surname Raza — 6,635th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 61,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,891
Rank: 6,635th
How common: 1 in 61,100
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Dari, from Classical Persian, from Arabic, Urdu, from Classical Persian, from Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Raza described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 84.8%
White, not Hispanic 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Raza

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921)Indian Islamic scholar and reformer, regarded as a founder of the Barelvi movement
Roustam Raza (1783–1845)bodyguard of Napoleon
Akhtar Raza Khan (1943–2018)Grand Mufti of India
Ludvík Ráža (1929–2000)Czech film director and screenwriter

People named Raza with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Raza

Razo

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.