Raushan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Roshan in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 10 more, Раушан in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 more and Roushan in BD Bangladesh.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Raushan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name4.2K records spelled Raushan6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Kazakhstan, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ràúshãñ, Rãūshäñ

• Arabic given name958 records spelled Raushan3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye

  Languages: Arabic, Amharic

  Also written Řáušhāñ

• Turkish given name281 records spelled Raushan4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, India, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Раушан

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 98 years between 1911–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Roshen Dalalb. 1952INnot in their usual nameIndian historian and writer (born 1952)
• Raushan AliBDBangladeshi politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 215 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Raushan?

We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Raushan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Raushan have the most bearers?

Raushan is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled roshan.

Where is Raushan most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raushan is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 755 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Raushan compared with other names?

In India, Raushan is the 235th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Raushan a male or female name?

Raushan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.