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Ramazan

Boys' name

From Arabic رَمَضَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Ramazan has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2005, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ramazan, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ramazan: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic رَمَضَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Ramazan means

Ramazan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ramazan is used in Azerbaijani and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Ramazan comes through Arabic رَمَضَان.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Ramazan is pronounced /ɾɑmɑˈzɑn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Ramazan between 2005 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2005; its best national rank was #11,133 in 2005.

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 Ramazan?

Ramazan 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 Ramazan 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 Ramazan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ramazans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ramazan was born before 2013 — so the typical Ramazan is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Ramazan 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (6)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,133
2005

Spellings of Ramazan

Ramazan is not the most common spelling — Rayaan is, with 50.1% against Ramazan's 0.96%.

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.

Ramazan around the world

Where Ramazan 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
    1997–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1974–2025
    #4,077
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1989–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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

Ramazan 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
—
Best rank ever
#11,133
2005
Peak year
2005
6 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ramazan

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

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Sibling names for Ramazan

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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