Given name & surname
Menan
“portion”·“destiny”
Menan is used as a given name and a surname.
Original GreekΜεννα
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Menan means “portion” or “destiny.”
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Where it comes from
Menan is a biblical name from Greek.
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How it developed
From the Hebrew verb mana (מנה), “to count or to reckon.”
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In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Menan appears in Luke 3:31.
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Menan’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 8
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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