Entry № 9307 · Arabic origin

Sawsan Sawsan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAW-san /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Lily"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "lily".

Sawsan is from the Arabic سوسن — lily (sometimes also referring to iris).

Lily — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

سوسن
Transliteration
Sawsan
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɔː.sɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sawsan stands.

Sawsan 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.

Sawsans before her.

Real people
Saloua (Sawsan) Choucair
First major Arab abstract artist + Tate Modern 2013.
1916 – 2017
In fiction
Sawsan
Arabic lily.

Names connected to Sawsan.

The number behind Sawsan.

5

The Seeker

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