Given name & surname
Ramzan
“born of the sun god”
Ramzan is a variant of Ramses. One Egyptian interpretation is “born of the sun god.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ramzan is a variant of Ramses. One Egyptian interpretation is “born of the sun god.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ramzan is a variant of Ramses. An origin associated with Ramses is Egyptian.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Bengali রমজান (romzan), from Classical Persian رمضان (ramazān), from Arabic رَمَضَان.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ramzan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 196 as a first name in 2020; 437 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.
Ramzan’s family of names
Ramzan has a related form in Ramses. In English usage, Ramzan was borrowed from the Bengali form রমজান.
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 1
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 Ramzan
- Ramzan KadyrovRussian politician and head of the Chechen Republicborn 1976
- Ramzan SebiyevSoviet boxerborn 1960
- Ramzan KhadzhievChechen writer (1955-1996)
- Ramzan PaskayevRussian musicianborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.