Entry № 604 · Arabic origin

Anan Anan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Clouds (Arabic)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "clouds (arabic)".

Anan (عنان) is the Arabic word for "clouds" — specifically the high cirrus clouds that bring no rain.

Used widely in the modern Arab world.

Clouds. The Arabic.

The name in its native script.

عنان
Transliteration
ʿAnān
Pronunciation
/ əˈnɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anan stands.

Anan 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.

Anans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Anan
Common in Arabic poetry.

Names connected to Anan.

The number behind Anan.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anan reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.