Given name · Russian
Ефан
“firmness, strong, or long-lived”
Ефан (Jéfan) is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew, meaning “firmness, strong, or long-lived.” It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Jéfan.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew אֵיתָן (ʾêṯān, “firmness, strong, or long-lived”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ефан’s family of names
In Russian usage, Ефан can be written in the Roman alphabet as Jéfan. In Russian usage, Ефан has a related form in Еѳанъ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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