Entry № 1687 · Indonesian origin

Bulan Bulan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOO-lahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indonesian
Meaning
"The moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the moon".

Bulan means the moon — bright, calm, ever-returning. It carries serenity and quiet light.

The moon — a Indonesian name.

The name in its native script.

Bulan
Transliteration
Bulan
Pronunciation
/ ˈbu.lan /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bulan stands.

Bulan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bulans before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Bulan.

The number behind Bulan.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bulan reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.