About the name Raman
Raman belongs to the Hindu & Indian tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess. It travels in a few spellings: Roman.
In the United States, Raman first appears in Social Security records in 1958. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2579 in 1973, and in 2024 5 babies received the name — 332 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.