Rawan
Rawan was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,064 among girls’ names; 1,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Rawan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rawan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rawan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rawan is “a unisex given name from Kurdish”
Borrowed from Kurdish.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rawan?
#3,064 among girls’ names, 2025
Rawan rose from #4,474 in 2015 to #3,064 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.9 to 33.6 per million.
54 babies in 2025, the peak
Rawan peaked in 2025, when 54 girls were given it, #3,064 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 39 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,064 | 33.6 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,878 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,374 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,264 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,864 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,060 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,245 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,279 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,903 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,455 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,474 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,529 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,857 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,694 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,708 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,379 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,931 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,635 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,964 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,976 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,853 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,677 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,277 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,377 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,845 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,385 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,135 | 23.7 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,621 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,085 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,546 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,183 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,678 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,509 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,056 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,947 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,879 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,427 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,000 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,900 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,522 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,297 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,028 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,846 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rawan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rawan has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 43 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rawan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rawan, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,439 Americans ever recorded as Rawan. The median Rawan alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,284 people named Rawan (2,240 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 266 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 616 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 541 |
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).
Where are babies named Rawan born?
The states with the most babies named Rawan are California, New York and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,056 | 0.6× |
| New York | 8 | #1,624 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 8 | #941 | 3.3× |
Where Rawan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rawan is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1983 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rawan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rawan
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 Rawan and names like it
- Compare Rawan and AlauraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rawan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rawan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rawan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.