Rawan
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in England and Wales.
Rawan by the numbers
In 2025, 12 babies in England and Wales were named Rawan. In the US, 39 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 50 babies in 1993, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Rawan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Rawan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Rowanlittle red one; the rowan tree1,398 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rayanwatered; verdant or irrigated land291 in England and Wales (2025)
- Raganlittle king; variant of Regan22 in the US (2017)
- Reaganlittle king3,211 in the US (2017)
- Ravendark-haired; from the bird name742 in the US (2017)
- Rayyanwatered, irrigated; one who drinks261 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Rawan
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