Given name & surname
Janan
“of the heart and soul”
Janan is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “of the heart and soul.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “of the heart and soul.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1938. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Janan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 655
- 10 boys · 645 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 938 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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