Ramazan
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ramazan is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Kurdish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
- TRTürkiye1 in 228◐
- KZKazakhstan1 in 446
- KGKyrgyzstan1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈410K ●
- #839 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 141 ●
- 1 in 228 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.7M records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Рамазан in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 5 more and Რამაზან in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #20 | 359,638 | 2.5M rec. | 1 in 228 | 360K | Ramazan | 127 |
| RU Russia | #233 | 159,871 | 122K rec. | — | #87 | Рамазан | 141 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #442 | 42,789 | 35K rec. | 1 in 446 | 43K | Рамазан | 50 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #281 | 12,411 | 2.2K rec. | — | 1.4K | Рамазан | 16 |
| SY Syria | #337 | 11,247 | 16K rec. | — | — | Ramazan | 9 |
| UA Ukraine | #683 | 4,831 | 5.4K rec. | — | — | Рамазан | 21 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,154 | — | 1 in 975 | 3.2K | — | — |
| BE Belgium | #685 | 2,787 | 2.8K rec. | — | 33 | Ramazan | 40 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #384 | 1,641 | 1.1K rec. | — | 223 | Рамазан | 25 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #514 | 1,609 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Ramazan | 11 |
| IN India | — | 1,599 | 341 rec. | — | 60 | Ramazan | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,361 | 740 rec. | — | 3 | Ramazan | 55 |
Roughly 360K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 228). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish2.5M83%
- Kurdish373K12%
- German28K1%
- French17K1%
- Albanian12K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 2,514,307 | 83% |
| Kurdish | 373,130 | 12% |
| German | 27,891 | 1% |
| French | 17,233 | 1% |
| Albanian | 12,198 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ramazan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Arabi ayların dokuzuncusu, oruç tutulan ay. 2. Bu ayda doğanlara verilen ad.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
which burns away sins;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In English, Dated form of Ramadan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, glavni muslimanski post pred Bajram; deveti mjesec muslimanske godine
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 2 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 3 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 6 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 10 |
| 1959 | 9 |
| 1960 | 10 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1962 | 13 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 3 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 12 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 2 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 25 |
| 1993 | 21 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 19 |
| 1996 | 44 |
| 1997 | 22 |
| 1998 | 31 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2014 | 6 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 72 years between 1920–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ramazan Rragamib. 1944ALAlbanian footballer
- Ramazan Bashardostb. 1961AFScientist
- Ramaz Palianib. 1973GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian boxer
- Ramazan Yıldırımb. 1975TRTurkish-German association football player and manager (born 1975)
- Ramazan Şahinb. 1983RUTurkish wrestler (born 1983)
- Ramazan Özcanb. 1984ATTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 1984)
- Ramazan Çevikb. 1992BETurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Ramazan Abdulaevb. 1998RURussian judoka
- Ramazan Isayevb. 1998RURussian association football player
- Ramazan Karimovb. 1999KZKazakhstani association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 58 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 360K | #12 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.2K | #90 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1K | #2,951 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 675 | #1,340 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 608 | #2,210 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 510 | #3,162 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 485 | #2,843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 446 | #21,974 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 433 | #763 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 409 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 401 | #760 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 397 | #579 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 337 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ramazan?
- We estimate roughly 410 thousand people bear Ramazan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ramazan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 360 thousand people bear Ramazan in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ramazan.
- Where is Ramazan most common?
- Ramazan is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 228 people carrying it.
- How common is Ramazan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Ramazan is the 20th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Ramazan a male or female name?
- Ramazan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ramazan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ramazan” — the 20th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.