Entry № 4036 · Arabic origin

Hanan Hanan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ha-NAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Compassion, tenderness"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "compassion, tenderness".

Hanan (حنان) is the Arabic word for "compassion" or "tenderness" — particularly the warm, affectionate feeling of a mother.

Hanan Ashrawi (born 1946), the Palestinian scholar and politician, is the most internationally known bearer.

Tenderness. The Arabic word for motherly love.

The name in its native script.

حنان
Transliteration
Ḥanān
Pronunciation
/ həˈnɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hanan stands.

Hanan 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.

Hanans before her.

Real people
Hanan Ashrawi
Palestinian scholar and politician.
born 1946
In fiction
Hanan
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Hanan.

The number behind Hanan.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hanan reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.