Ridwan (Arabic: رِضْوَان ridwan ) is an Arabic masculine given name and which the name also derived from the Islamic angel Ridwan and means "grace, pleasure, satisfaction". In Islamic tradition, Ridwan is the name of an angel in charge of maintaining the gates of Paradise, Jannah.

Other forms of Ridwan include "Ridhwan", "Rizwan", "Rizvan", and "Ridvan" or "Rıdvan" in Albanian, Bosnian, Indonesian, Kashmiri, Malay, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Tajik, Turkish, Urdu, and other languages heavily influenced by Arabic directly, or through Persian or Turkish.

The only two variants used in Albanian are Ridvan and Rizvan.

In Bangladesh, the name may be spelled as "Rizwan", "Rezwan", "Rejwan" or "Redwan". It may also be transliterated as Redhwan, Redwhan or Redwan.

In Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia it is alternatively spelled as "Ridwan" or "Riduan". "Redouane" is the most common spelling in French.

The female equivalent of this name is "Ridwana" or "Rizwana".

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