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Raman name meaning

“pleasing; beautiful”

Letters
5
Syllables
2
First letter
R
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 5.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s5.6%
1950s5.4%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: RMeaning beautySanskrit origin

Raman is a male name, a variant of Rama from Sanskrit meaning 'pleasing, beautiful'.

What does Raman mean?

Pleasing; beautiful

In Malay: menyenangkan; cantik

#Beauty

Sources (3)

About the name Raman

Raman is a Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada male name, a variant of Rama. Rama comes from a Sanskrit word meaning 'pleasing, beautiful'. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 364 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesRa-man
First letterIndian Names starting with R
Devanagari scriptरमण

Raman in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 182 · 5.6%
1950s
Boy: 364 · 5.4%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Raman as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: राम · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Raman · behindthename.com · meaning
  3. Behind the Name: Rama · behindthename.com · meaning

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