Entry № 2280 · Chinese origin

Dan Dan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender

Girl

Origin

Chinese

Meaning

"Red, the colour of dawn"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "red, the colour of dawn".

Dan is a name of Chinese origin, meaning red, the colour of dawn.

Red, the colour of dawn — a Chinese name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Dan

Transliteration: Dan
Pronunciation: / /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Dan stands.

Dan 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.

Namesakes

Dans before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Dan.

Numerology

The number behind Dan.

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dan reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.