Entry № 4919 · Sanskrit origin

Jhulan Jhulan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOO-lahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Swing / Jhulan Goswami cricketer (Krishna)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "swing / jhulan goswami cricketer (krishna)".

Jhulan is from the Sanskrit Jhulan.

Swing / Jhulan Goswami cricketer (Krishna) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

झुलन
Transliteration
Jhulan
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒuː.lɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jhulan stands.

Jhulan 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.

Jhulans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Jhulan Yatra Krishna-Radha / Jhulan Goswami 255 ODI wickets
Sanskrit swing cradle + Jhulan Yatra Vaishnava swing-festival Krishna-Radha idols + Vrindavan + Braj + Odisha Jagannath + Jhulan Goswami 1982- highest wicket-taker womens ODI cricket 255 wickets
Krishna festival + cricket

Names connected to Jhulan.

The number behind Jhulan.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jhulan reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.