Given name & surname
Ramin
“a great warrior”
Ramin is used as a given name and a surname. One Persian interpretation is “a great warrior.”
Original Persianرامین
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Persian interpretation is “a great warrior.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Persian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ramin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 677
- 677 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,764 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,764 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 24.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,187 as a first name in 2020; 513 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.
Ramin’s family of names
In English usage, Ramin shares an earlier linguistic root with RAMAYANA. Ramin has a related form in Ramen. Ramin has a related form in Ramyn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ramin has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
Persianwhere Ramin comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ramin
- Ramin DjawadiGerman score composer (born 1974)
- Ramin RezaeianIranian association football playerborn 1990
- Ramin KarimlooIranian-Canadian actor, singer and composerborn 1978
- Ramin BahraniIranian-American director and screenwriter (born 1975)
- Ramin JahanbeglooIranian philosopherborn 1956
- Ramin OttAmerican Samoan soccer playerborn 1986
- Ramin AzizovAzerbaijani taekwondo practitionerborn 1988
- Ramin IbrahimovAzerbaijani Paralympic judokaborn 1978
- Ramin GuliyevAzerbaijani footballerborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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