Raman
The name means "Roman", someone from Rome, carried into Polish through its Slavic forms. Only about 3,300 men have it and newborns have all but stopped, so most Poles have never met one.
Raman Pronunciation
Raman is pronounced RAH-mahn (/ˈraman/).
What Raman means
Where Raman comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Raman is the Eastern Slavic form of Roman, a name that points at one city on the map. It goes back to the Latin Romanus, the word for a person of Rome. The Polish reading keeps the sense plain: rzymianin, z Rzymu, someone who belongs to Rome. The root is a place.
For a long stretch of history the adjective Roman traveled far past the city itself. It marked citizenship, then a whole idea of order, and eventually it settled among Slavic speakers as a first name. The spelling Raman holds onto an older Eastern vowel, softer than the Polish Roman, though the two are the same name underneath.
In Poland a boy called Roman finds his imieniny on 28 February, a date fixed to the Church calendar. Picture the name read off a class register in September, one Roman among the Rs. Behind it stands a Latin word that once meant nothing more grand than a man from Rome, rzymianin.
How many people are named Raman
1 in 6508 men in Poland is named Raman. 3,282 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #570 among male names.
Raman's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Raman as a middle name
Raman is a first name for 3,282 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2682nd, between Poul (13) and Reece (13).
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#2680 Phu13
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#2681 Poul13
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#2682 Raman13
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#2683 Reece13
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#2684 Refael13