Entry № 1496 · Amharic origin

Birhan Birhan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Amharic
Meaning
"Light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "light".

Birhan is a name of Amharic origin, meaning light.

Light — a Amharic name.

The name in its native script.

Birhan
Transliteration
Birhan
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Birhan stands.

Birhan 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.

Birhans before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Birhan.

The number behind Birhan.

7

The Seeker

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