Entry № 9656 · Welsh origin

Sian Sian — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"God is gracious"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "god is gracious".

Siân is the Welsh form of Jane — from the Hebrew Yohanan, meaning "God is gracious."

Siân Phillips (born 1933), the Welsh actress, is the most internationally known bearer.

God is gracious. The Welsh Jane.

The name in its native script.

Siân
Transliteration
Siân
Pronunciation
/ ʃɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sian stands.

Sian 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.

Sians before her.

Real people
Siân Phillips
Welsh actress.
born 1933
In fiction
Siân
Common in Welsh fiction.

Names connected to Sian.

The number behind Sian.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sian reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.