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Raman

Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Raman has been given to 332 babies in the U.S. since 1958. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1973, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Raman, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raman: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raman means

Raman has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Raman

A separate documented entry treats Raman as a variant of Rama. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Raman records a meaning of peace.

A separate documented entry treats Raman as a form of Roman. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Raman as a form of Ramana. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Raman is used in English.

Raman comes through Belarusian Рама́н.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Рама́н.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 332 boys were recorded with the name Raman between 1958 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1973; its best national rank was #2,577 in 1973.

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 Raman?

Raman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raman 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ramans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raman was born before 1992 — so the typical Raman is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
332
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Raman 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (15)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,577
1973

Spellings of Raman

Raman is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 43.8% against Raman's 0.02%.

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 Raman is used

Across 1910–2025, Raman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Raman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raman around the world

Where Raman 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
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2017
    #5,729
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1971–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Raman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,577
1973
Peak year
1973
15 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
332
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Raman

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

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Sibling names for Raman

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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