Marwan
Marwan was given to 58 boys in 2025, #2,376 among boys’ names; 1,367 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Marwan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marwan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marwan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marwan is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic مَرْوَان (marwān).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marwan?
#2,376 among boys’ names, 2025
Marwan rose from #3,198 in 2015 to #2,376 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 34.0 per million.
58 babies in 2025, the peak
Marwan peaked in 2025, when 58 boys were given it, #2,376 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 48 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,376 | 34.0 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,732 | 27.9 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,318 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,939 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,716 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,741 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,512 | 29.5 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,535 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,373 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,502 | 26.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,198 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,964 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,649 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,089 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,087 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,419 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,862 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,647 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,202 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,493 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,581 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,417 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,897 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,414 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,031 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,151 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,988 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,556 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,987 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,310 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,228 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,413 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,637 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,545 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,004 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,652 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,014 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,066 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,458 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,434 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,946 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,386 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,353 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,226 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,464 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,497 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,973 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,756 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,862 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,776 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,330 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,326 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,809 | 8.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,382 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,718 | 4.3 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,447 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marwan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marwan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marwan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marwan, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,367 Americans ever recorded as Marwan. The median Marwan alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,720 people named Marwan (14 women and girls, 2,706 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,077 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 182 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 418 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 603 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,737 babies since 1880, Marwan is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 58 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marwan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marwan and names like it
- Compare Marwan and MarwinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMarwan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marwan since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Marwan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Marwan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marwan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.