Given name & surname
Raji
“mistress, lady, dame”
Raji is a feminine given name. It is used in Romani.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Raji goes back to a word meaning “mistress, lady, dame.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Raji through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 150
- 150 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 779 as a first name in 2020; 759 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Raji’s family of names
In Malayalam usage, Raji is a Roman-alphabet rendering of രജി.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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