Raman
Raman was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 332 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raman is “a transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Рама́н (Ramán).”
Belarusian Рама́н (Ramán)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,771, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1973, the peak
Raman peaked in 1973, when 15 boys were given it, #2,577 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,771 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,546 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,669 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,518 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,477 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,368 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,410 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,470 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,921 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,844 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #9,663 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,214 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,551 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,901 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,779 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,478 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,131 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,016 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,204 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,995 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,445 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,964 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,270 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,020 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,002 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,984 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,485 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,116 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,858 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,780 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,333 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,866 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,078 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,066 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,032 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,788 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,011 | 5.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,780 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,311 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,577 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,845 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,264 | 2.7 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,369 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raman, and how old are they?
An estimated 316 Americans named Raman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 18 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,786 people named Raman (262 women and girls, 1,524 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 304 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.9 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 88,472 babies since 1880, Raman is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 342 babies recorded by SSA was a Raman (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Raman
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 Raman and names like it
- Compare Raman and RamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRaman peaked in 1973.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raman since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Raman.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Raman alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.