Raz
A Slavic name meaning "secret". It's rare in Poland and given to both women and men, carried in all by only about a hundred people.
Raz Pronunciation
Raz is pronounced RAHS (/ras/).
What Raz means
Where Raz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Raz is a short name with a Slavic origin, and its meaning is secret. In Polish that word is tajemnica, a thing kept back and not shown. The name has a Jewish association as well, and here two languages meet on one idea: in Hebrew, raz (רז) also means secret or mystery.
Raz carries no diminutives and no variants. It stands alone as a single form. On a Polish school register, a name like this gives little away about itself, which suits a word for the withheld and the unsaid.
To read the name is to read a promise of discretion. Whatever a person named Raz holds, the name points to the holding rather than the thing held. Across both its Slavic and its Jewish life, the short meaning stays fixed: secret, tajemnica, sekret.
How many people are named Raz
1 in 260319 men in Poland is named Raz. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3325 among male names.
Raz's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Raz as a middle name
Raz is a first name for 106 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3000th, between Ratna (11) and Resul (11).
-
#2998 Rama11
-
#2999 Ratna11
-
#3000 Raz11
-
#3001 Resul11
-
#3002 Rikard11