Entry № 6541 · Other origin

Marjan Marjan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mahr-JAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Coral (Persian-Arabic + Quranic Surah Ar-Rahman)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "coral (persian-arabic + quranic surah ar-rahman)".

Marjan is from the Persian / Arabic مرجان (Marjān — coral, pearls). Marjan is one of the Persian + Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Persian + Muslim heritage.

Coral (Persian-Arabic + Quranic Surah Ar-Rahman).

The name in its native script.

مرجان
Transliteration
Marjān
Pronunciation
/ mɑːrˈdʒɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marjan stands.

Marjan 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.

Marjans before her.

Real people
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist + Persepolis 2000-2003 + pioneering Middle Eastern graphic memoir.
born 1969
In fiction
Marjan / Shahnaz Tehrani
Iranian actress + singer + pre-revolution Iranian cinema icon + Iranian dissident.
1949 – 2020

Names connected to Marjan.

The number behind Marjan.

3

The Communicator

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