Entry № 1266 · Other origin

Baran Baran — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bah-RAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Rain"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Kurdish)

A name that means "rain".

Baran is from the Kurdish-Turkish Baran — rain. Baran is one of the Kurdish + Turkish feminine names — central to traditional Kurdish + Turkic-Persian heritage. Kurdish feminine name reflecting Indo-Iranian heritage.

Rain.

The name in its native script.

Baran
Transliteration
Baran
Pronunciation
/ bəˈrɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Baran stands.

Baran 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.

Barans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Baran (film)
Iranian-Kurdish film 2001 by Majid Majidi.

Names connected to Baran.

The number behind Baran.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Baran reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.