Ramazan
A Turkish name tied to Ramadan, the month of fasting, carrying a sense of scorching heat. Just over 400 men in Poland hold it and no boys have been given it in recent years, so most Poles have never met one.
Ramazan Pronunciation
Ramazan is pronounced rah-MAH-zahn (/raˈmazan/).
What Ramazan means
Where Ramazan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ramazan is the Turkish form of Ramadan, the name of the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. The Arabic root r-m-ḍ points to scorching heat, to ground baked hard under a summer sun. In an older reckoning the month fell in that heat, and the word held onto the memory.
So the name reads two ways at once: the month of fasting, and the burning season that gave the month its name. Boys born while the fast was kept were often named for it, a custom that runs across Turkey and far beyond. The goalkeeper Ramazan Özcan, born in Hohenems in Austria to a Turkish family, carries it onto the pitch.
In Poland the name arrives with newcomers rather than from any old parish record. Picture it read out from a class register in a Warsaw school, one name among the Jakubs and Zuzannas. It stays a boy's name. And it still holds the heat of that first sense: the scorching month of the fast.
How many people are named Ramazan
1 in 53232 men in Poland is named Ramazan. 401 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1478 among male names.
Ramazan as a middle name
Ramazan is a first name for 401 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2439th, between Putra (15) and Rehman (15).
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#2437 Przemko15
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#2438 Putra15
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#2439 Ramazan15
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#2440 Rehman15
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#2441 Reid15