Raj
A Slavic name that means "king". It stays rare in Poland: only about 120 men carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Raj Pronunciation
Raj is pronounced RAHY (/raj/).
What Raj means
Where Raj comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Raj is a short name with a large meaning. It comes from a Slavic root, and the meaning handed down with it is king, in Polish król. One syllable that points straight at royalty.
Names built on the idea of a ruler tend to wear their sense openly, and Raj does that. There is no diminutive to hide behind, no gentler variant to soften the claim. A child called Raj carries the word for king, with no longer form standing behind it.
The royal meaning is a reading of the name, attached to it rather than proven in any charter. What the Slavic origin gives is the shape and the sound. What speakers have done with it is hear król inside those three letters. On a school register in Poland the name stands alone. Raj means king.
How many people are named Raj
1 in 177885 men in Poland is named Raj. 124 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3017 among male names.
Raj as a middle name
Raj is a first name for 124 men in Poland and a middle name for another 271, a 31/69 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 431st, between Filipe (271) and Lukasz (269).
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#429 Augusto272
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#430 Filipe271
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#431 Raj271
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#432 Lukasz269
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#433 Anastazy268