Entry № 11491 · Other origin

Wayan Wayan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WAH-yahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"First-born"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Balinese)

A name that means "first-born".

Wayan is from the Balinese Wayan — first-born (Indonesian Bali Hindu Indigenous birth-order naming system). Wayan is one of the Balinese unisex names — central to traditional Balinese Hindu Indigenous heritage.

First-born.

The name in its native script.

Wayan
Transliteration
Wayan
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɑː.jɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wayan stands.

Wayan 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.

Wayans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wayan
Balinese first-born.

Names connected to Wayan.

The number behind Wayan.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wayan reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.