Rohan is a Sanskrit name, derived from the word ‘rohana’ meaning ‘ascending’. Sanskrit is an old language in India, still spoken today.
Rohan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Rohan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Rohan ranks 660. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Rohan. In the entire USA, approximately 9,571 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rohan. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Rohan is a Sanskrit name, derived from the word ‘rohana’ meaning ‘ascending’. Sanskrit is an old language in India, still spoken today.
The popularity of this name... was influenced by the film adaption of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2001 - 2003). In it, Rohan is the name of a kingdom.
Rohan is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Rohan cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #457 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2004. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Rohan, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Rohan seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rohan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
303 babies were named Rohan in 2022 - that's 1 in 532,759 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Rohan ranked 761 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Rohan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rohan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rohan, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Hat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rohan
Rohan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
O
H
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
O
H
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rohan sounds like this:
