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Rohana name meaning

“related to spirit”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
R
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1970s: 12.3%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s9%
1970s12.3%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
3

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Rohana

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: RArabic origin

Rohana is a girl's name linked to the Arabic word rūḥ, 'spirit'.

What does Rohana mean?

Related to spirit

In Malay: berkaitan dengan roh

Sources (1)

About the name Rohana

Rohana is linked to the Arabic word rūḥ, 'spirit', as Behind the Name records for the name Ruh. The link is a derivation rather than a standard Arabic form. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 6,192 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesRo-ha-na
First letterMalay Names starting with R

Rohana in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 5,954 · 9%
1970s
Girl: 6,192 · 12.3%
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 Rohana 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 Malay 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)

Compound names with Rohana

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Ruh · behindthename.com · meaning

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