Rauf
From Hebrew and carried on through Arabic and Turkish, it means "compassionate, merciful". In Poland it stays rare: about 140 men hold it, and the records show no boys given it in years.
Rauf Pronunciation
Rauf is pronounced RAH-oof (/ˈrauf/).
What Rauf means
Where Rauf comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Rauf reaches back to a Hebrew root for mercy. Its meaning has stayed fixed: compassionate, merciful. Hebrew holds a small family of words around this tenderness. The word points to a person who feels another's suffering and acts on it.
Arabic and Turkish gave Rauf its everyday home. In Arabic, Ar-Ra'uf stands among the ninety-nine names of God, the Most Compassionate. The name keeps close to its meaning. A Turkish family that names a son Rauf hands him that same idea of kindness toward the weak.
In a Polish class register, Rauf sits between more familiar names, and the teacher reads it out on the first morning. It has no Polish diminutive. The meaning does the work by itself: compassionate, merciful.
How many people are named Rauf
1 in 151391 men in Poland is named Rauf. 141 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2765 among male names.
Rauf as a middle name
Rauf is a first name for 141 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4973rd, between Rasmus (5) and Razmik (5).
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#4971 Rasim5
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#4972 Rasmus5
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#4973 Rauf5
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#4974 Razmik5
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#4975 Recep5