Entry № 1394 · English origin

Besant Besant — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEH-sant /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Iconic Annie Besant - Indian National Congress President + Theosophist"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "iconic annie besant - indian national congress president + theosophist".

Princess Besant — English-Indian heritage naming.

Iconic Annie Besant - Indian National Congress President + Theosophist — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Besant
Transliteration
Besant
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛ.sənt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Besant stands.

Besant 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.

Besants before her.

Real people
Annie Besant
Iconic first woman President of Indian National Congress 1917 + Theosophical Society + BHU founder.
1847 – 1933
In fiction
Besant
Iconic English-Indian heritage.

Names connected to Besant.

The number behind Besant.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Besant reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.