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Marwan

#2,376 in 2025Boys' name

Masculine form of Marwa

Marwan has been given to 1,367 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #2,376 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Marwan, 2025

1 in 57,200

Marwan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marwan: meaning, origin, and history

Masculine form of Marwa

Arabic

What Marwan means

Marwan is a masculine form of Marwa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Marwan → Marwa. The family’s meaning is “pebbles, flint”, recorded in the naming reference for Marwa.

Origin, language, and formation

Marwan is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marwa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,367 boys were recorded with the name Marwan between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,326 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,741 in 2020 to #2,376 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,198 in 2015 to #2,376 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marwan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 29,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,376
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marwan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marwan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marwans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marwan was born before 2010 — so the typical Marwan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,367
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (436).

Is Marwan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+356
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+365
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+822
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (58)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,326
1974

Spellings of Marwan

Marwan is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 35.8% against Marwan's 0.15%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marwan is used

Across 1910–2025, Marwan was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 241,457 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marwan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marwan around the world

Where Marwan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #934
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–1984
    #305
    in 1984
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1974–2025
    #399
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Marwan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,376
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 365
Best rank ever
#2,326
1974
Peak year
2025
58 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,367
Count in 2025
58

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Sibling names for Marwan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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