Given name & surname · also Urdu
Rizwan
“angel of Paradise”
Rizwan is a masculine given name from Urdu, ultimately from Arabic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rizwan goes back to Arabic رِضْوَان, meaning “angel of Paradise.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rizwan comes from Urdu, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Urdu رِضْوَان, from Arabic رِضْوَان (“angel of Paradise”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rizwan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 535
- 535 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #6,372 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +20%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,372 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 20.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,587 as a first name in 2020; 1,024 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.
Rizwan’s family of names
Rizwan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ризван.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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 Rizwan
- Rizwan ManjiCanadian actorborn 1974
- Rizwan KhanBritish television presenterborn 1962
- Rizwan AkhtarPakistani general
- Rizwan Ahmedcricketerborn 1978
- Rizwan CheemaCanadian cricketerborn 1978
- Rizwan MahmoodDanish cricketerborn 1989
- Rizwan ShamshadIndian cricketerborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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