Entry № 4804 · Arabic origin

Janan Janan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jah-NAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Heart"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "heart".

Janan is from the Arabic Janān.

Heart — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

جنان
Transliteration
Janān
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈnɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Janan stands.

Janan 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.

Janans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Arabic Sufi heart
Arabic heart inner heart soul + Arab + Persian Sufi poetry + central in pan-Islamic mystical heritage + Rumi + Hafez + Saadi
Sufi poetry

Names connected to Janan.

The number behind Janan.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Janan reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.