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Ramzan

Boys' name

Scorching heat, through রমজান

Ramzan has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2017. 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 2022, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ramzan, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ramzan: meaning, origin, and history

Scorching heat, through রমজান

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ramzan means

Ramzan belongs to the name family reached through Ramzan → রমজান. Its meaning is “scorching heat”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hindustani रमज़ान (ramzān) / رمضان (ramzān) / Bengali রমজান (romzan) and other South Asian languages, from Classical Persian رمضان (ramazān), from Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ramzan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ramzan is used in English.

Ramzan comes through Bengali রমজান, fa-cls رمضان and Arabic رَمَضَان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include রমজান.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Ramzan between 2017 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,981 in 2022.

How common is Ramzan?

Ramzan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ramzan 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ramzan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ramzans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ramzan was born before 2022 — so the typical Ramzan is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Ramzan 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 2022 (6)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,981
2022

Spellings of Ramzan

Ramzan is not the most common spelling — Damian is, with 32.0% against Ramzan's <0.01%.

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.

Ramzan around the world

Where Ramzan 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
    1996–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • Scotland
    2000–2000
    #429
    in 2000
  • France
    2012–2023
    #5,592
    in 2023

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

Ramzan 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
#11,981
2022
Peak year
2022
6 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ramzan

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

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Sibling names for Ramzan

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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