Given name & surname
Ramadan
Ramadan is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in English and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ramadan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 307
- 307 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,763 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,763 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 5.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 633 as a first name in 2020; 2,296 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ramadan’s family of names
In English usage, Ramadan has a short form in Dani. In English usage, Ramadan has a later derivative in RAMIC. In Greek usage, Ramadan as a surname is a transliteration of Ραμαδάν.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ramadan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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