Răzvan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Răzvan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Uncertain; possibly related to the Slavic derived name Radovan (for example, found in Serbian), although this name also exists separately in Romanian as a more recent borrowing, or less likely an inte.
- RORomania≈1 in 340(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 2.3K
- ISIceland1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 342 (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Razvan in RO Romania, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Uncertain; possibly related to the Slavic derived name Radovan (for example, found in Serbian), although this name also exists separately in Romanian as a more recent borrowing, or less likely an internal formation within Romanian. Alternatively it may be ultimately of eastern (Persian and Arabic) origin via the Roma (Gypsy) community, possibly through India, or Ottoman Turkish رضوان (modern Turkish Rıdvan); see Arabic رضوان (riḍwān).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Răzvan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #52 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 342 | — | Razvan | 152 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 2 | Razvan | 71 |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,465 | 1 in 2.3K | 1.5K | — | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Razvan | 90 |
| US United States | — | 502 | 1 in 663K | 499 | Razvan | 178 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 16 | Razvan | 40 |
| IS Iceland | — | 15 | 1 in 23K | 15 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mihai Răzvan Ungureanub. 1968RO62nd Prime Minister of Romania (2012)
- Răzvan Rațb. 1981RORomanian footballer (born 1981)
- Răzvan Marinb. 1996RORomanian association football player (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Răzvan mean, and where does it come from?
- Uncertain; possibly related to the Slavic derived name Radovan (for example, found in Serbian), although this name also exists separately in Romanian as a more recent borrowing, or less likely an inte… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How common is the name Răzvan?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 1,465 people named Răzvan, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Răzvan compared with other names?
- In Romania, Răzvan is the 52nd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
- Is Răzvan a male or female name?
- Răzvan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Răzvan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Răzvan in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled razvan. After it come Italy, Moldova, Germany and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
What do you want to know about Răzvan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C4%83zvanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Răzvan” — the 52nd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.