Rawan

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Rawan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. In Kuwait it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rawan är ett namn med oklar betydelse.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait1 in 437◐
  • THThailand1 in 584
  • SYSyria1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.0K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
173 ●

72K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 13K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

RawanLatin · Arabic●46K records
ลำปางThai · Thai●15K records

14 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lawan in SE Sweden, NG Nigeria, PH Philippines and ลาวัลย์ in TH Thailand.

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●

recorded in Swedish

Rawan är ett namn med oklar betydelse. Det kan vara ett arabiskt namn som har förklarats betyda ’resa; rörelse’. Det kan även vara persiskt med betydelsen ’flöde’ eller ’själ’.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rawan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand#61947,32325K rec.—#526,698ลาวัลย์85
SY Syria#27413,74614K rec.——Rawan33
EG Egypt#46710,8195.2K rec.——Rawan91
SA Saudi Arabia#1467,0562.3K rec.——Rawan119
KW Kuwait#375,2323.2K rec.——Rawan71
TR Türkiye—3,3363.4K rec.——Rawan16
US United States—2,2406.1K rec.1 in 149K2.6KRawan173
JO Jordan#3901,7471.5K rec.——Rawan80
IL Israel—1,4831.4K rec.——Rawan32
IQ Iraq—9831K rec.——Rawan28
AE United Arab Emirates#443892670 rec.——Rawan74
SE Sweden—770△238 rec.1 in 13K770Lawan21

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic46K53%
  • Hindi11K12%
  • Portuguese3.8K4%
  • English3.7K4%
  • Marathi2.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic46,03653%
Hindi10,65112%
Portuguese3,8114%
English3,7034%
Marathi2,3713%

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◐

Rawan is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name14K records spelled Rawan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Syria, Türkiye

    Languages: Hindi, Marathi

    Also written Řawañ, Řawan, Řăwåñ, Räwän, Ŗǻẅǻn

  • Urdu given name4.8K records spelled Rawan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Türkiye, Pakistan

    Also written Rãwãñ, Rāwán, Rãwäñ

  • Portuguese given name4.0K records spelled Rawan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Syria

    Also written Řăwăň, Råẃâň, Ràwàn, Řäwäñ, Råwäñ

  • a separate given name2.6K records spelled Rawan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Rawān

  • Spanish given name2.3K records spelled Rawan23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, Philippines

    Also written Räwän, Řaẅaň, Rặwan, Řāwān, Řäwåņ

  • French given name2.2K records spelled Rawan7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Syria, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Řäwäñ, Räwän, Ràwàn, Ŕawăn, Râwân

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name985 records spelled Rawan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Syria

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Rãwäñ, Räwäň, Räwän, Râẃăñ

  • Polish given name186 records spelled Rawan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Räwâñ, Ŕaẁań, Ràwän

  • Hindi given name181 records spelled Rawan20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Rayana, Rowan, Rovan, Royana, Roan

39 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.

Other recorded senses●

Rawan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Kurdish, Soul, spirit, as well as one who is fluent, clear, and pure

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In zlm, emotion, tender feeling; be stirred

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In iba, experience emotion, be agitated

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Indonesian, anxious; emotion, tenderness

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Indonesian, affected, moved, touched

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

05010015019201940196019802000111 · 1985

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Rawan in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19182
19193
19201
19221
19238
19242
19251
19261
19275
19282
19297
19304
193116
19324
193310
193412
193516
193614
193716
193818
193915
194017
194123
194216
194327
194433
194548
194639
194748
194847
194947
195045
195153
195254
195354
195462
195582
195662
195782
195856
195973
196081
196190
196286
1963101
196467
196594
196694
1967102
196885
1969100
197099
197195
197293
197398
197487
197596
197694
197780
1978105
1979103
198072
198180
1982107
1983105
198484
1985111
1986100
198799
198861
198981
199076
199172
199269
199374
199479
199557
199643
199755
199824
19997
20011
20031
20085
20092
20108
201113
20128
201311
201410
201510

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 91 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19701980199020002010Rauan Kenzhekhanuly, b. 1979Rawan Barzani, b. 1981Roxie Nafous, b. 1990Rawan A AlHeresh, b. 2000Rawan Eldamaty, b. 2004

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 46 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Rawan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#6,871
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—770#2,040
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020606—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—498#2,513
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—419#5,161
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022353—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—331#17,011
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—302#3,031
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—186#26,393
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—133#1,309
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—97#5,453
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202554—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 377 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rawan?
We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Rawan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Rawan have the most bearers?
Rawan is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled ลาวัลย์.
How common is Rawan compared with other names?
In Thailand, Rawan is the 619th most common given name of 422,526 given names recorded there.
Is Rawan a male or female name?
Rawan 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.
What does the name Rawan mean?
Recorded meaning: Rawan är ett namn med oklar betydelse.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Rawan” — the 619th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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