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Roshan name meaning

“light, bright”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
R
Origin
Persian · Hindi
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 2010s: 8.9%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s8.9%

Indian Names: RMeaning lightPersian origin

Roshan is a boy's name from Persian meaning 'light' or 'bright'.

What does Roshan mean?

Light, bright

In Malay: terang; bercahaya

#Light

Sources (2)

About the name Roshan

Roshan comes from the Persian word rawshan or roshan meaning light or bright. The word was borrowed into Hindi and Urdu and is used as a name in India. According to JPN, the name appeared in the 2010s with 68 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginPersian, Hindi
SyllablesRo-shan
First letterIndian Names starting with R
Devanagari scriptरोशन

Roshan in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
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
Boy: 68 · 8.9%
People registered with Roshan 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. Behind the Name: Roshan · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: रोशन · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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