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Ramadan

#8,759 in 2025Boys' name

From Arabic رَمَضَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Ramadan has been given to 307 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #8,759 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ramadan, 2025

1 in 368,000

Ramadan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ramadan: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic رَمَضَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Ramadan means

Ramadan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ramadan is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Ramadan comes through Arabic رَمَضَان.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ramadan is pronounced /ɹæməˈdɑːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 307 boys were recorded with the name Ramadan between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,427 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,568 in 2020 to #8,759 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,982 in 2015 to #8,759 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 Ramadan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,759
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ramadan 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ramadan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ramadans were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
307
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Ramadan 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
+57
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−191
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,777
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2016 (15)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,427
1976

Spellings of Ramadan

Ramadan is not the most common spelling — Rayaan is, with 44.3% against Ramadan's 12.4%.

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.

Ramadan around the world

Where Ramadan 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
    1999–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #4,306
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2014
    #2,374
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ramadan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,759
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 191
Best rank ever
#3,427
1976
Peak year
2016
15 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
307
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Ramadan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ramadan

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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