Ridwan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rˈidwan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ridwan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 9.1K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ridwan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #67 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | listed | Ridwan | 210 |
| NG Nigeria | #706 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Ridwan | 76 |
| MY Malaysia | #621 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ridwan | 36 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Ridwan | 19 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Ridwan | 20 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Ridwan | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 26 | 1 in 665K | 113 | Ridwan | 18 |
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: the id-github-names register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
- Radwân ibn al-Walakhshîb. 1069EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian vizier (1137–1139)
- Fakhr al-Mulk Radwanb. 1180not in their usual nameSeljuk ruler
- Ridwan Pashab. 1501TROttoman general and statesman of Bosniak origin (d. 1585)
- Radwan Al Hilub. 1909JOnot in their usual namePalestinian politician (1909–1975)
- Riduan Isamuddinb. 1964IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian terrorist leader
- Ridwan Kamilb. 1971ID14th Governor of West Java (2018—2023)
- Riz Ahmedb. 1982GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor and rapper
- Daniel Budimanb. 1983DEnot in their usual nameGerman television presenter
- Raḍwān ibn Muḥammad al-SāʻātīSYnot in their usual nameastronomer
- Riduan RubinMYnot in their usual nameMalaysian politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 113 | #4,094 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 93 | #8,386 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ridwan?
- A machine transcription gives /rˈidwan/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Ridwan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Ridwan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ridwan.
- How common is the name Ridwan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 26 people named Ridwan in 2007, about 1 in 665 thousand residents.
- How common is Ridwan compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Ridwan is the 67th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ridwanThe 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, “Ridwan” — the 67th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.