Roshan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled 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●

Attested across 2 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◐

Roshan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name244K records spelled Roshan2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Roṣhān

• English given name58K records spelled Roshan26 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Roeshan, Rošhan, Röshäñ, Roshán, Řõśhãñ

• Sinhala given name15K records spelled Roshan10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Sri Lanka, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Rosan, රොෂාන්, රෝෂිනි, රෝෂාන්, රොෂින

• Spanish given name5.2K records spelled Roshan11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Röshân, Röshän, Ŕòśhàñ, Rõshãñ, Rõshäñ

59 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●

Roshan 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 English, Splendid one who emanates light

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• ‎‫ررتن‬ luminous; bright;

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

• Espléndida

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In English, A kshatriya Punjabi surname.

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Roshan Lal Anandb. 1924Padma Shree 1976 Sports Punjab
• Roshan Sethb. 1942INBritish-Indian actor
• Roshan Coolsb. 1975NLneuroscientist
• Roshan Ravindranb. 1981GBAesthetic physician
• Roshan Rajb. 1984INIndian cricketer
• Roshan SethiUSscreenwriter
• Roshan GunathilakeAUresearcher
• Roshan Das NairGBresearcher
• Roshan R. KulkarniINresearcher
• Roshan DsouzaIEresearcher

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 · 455 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roshan?

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

In which country does Roshan have the most bearers?

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

Where is Roshan most common?

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

How common is Roshan compared with other names?

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

Is Roshan a male or female name?

Roshan 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 Roshan mean?

Recorded meaning: , 2 Muslim name, from Persian: ‘shining’, ‘splendid’.