Razan
Razan was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,769 among girls’ names; 1,263 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Razan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Razan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Razan?
#2,769 among girls’ names, 2025
Razan rose from #2,883 in 2015 to #2,769 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 34.2 to 38.6 per million.
87 babies in 2024, the peak
Razan peaked in 2024, when 87 girls were given it, #2,194 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,769 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,194 | 53.7 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,728 | 39.9 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,658 | 40.2 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,917 | 35.3 |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,002 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,478 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,321 | 46.4 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,008 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,757 | 35.6 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,883 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,906 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,225 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,807 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,890 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,336 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,612 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,400 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,490 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,344 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,218 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,790 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,911 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,228 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,653 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,270 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,846 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,527 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,743 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,038 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,935 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,623 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,473 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,563 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,152 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,658 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,433 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,729 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,292 | 4.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,553 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Razan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Razan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Razan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Razan, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,263 Americans ever recorded as Razan. The median Razan alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,321 people named Razan (1,301 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 878 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 367 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 790 |
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 Razan born?
The states with the most babies named Razan are New York, Michigan and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,625 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,037 | 2.0× |
| California | 5 | #3,427 | 0.4× |
Where Razan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Razan is most over-represented in New York: since 1983 it was given 1.4 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 Razan 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 Razan
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 Razan and names like it
- Compare Razan and ChanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRazan peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Razan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Razan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Razan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.