Entry № 4046 · Arabic origin

Hanin Hanin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hah-NEEN /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Longing / yearning"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "longing / yearning".

Hanin is from the Arabic Ḥanīn.

Longing / yearning — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

حنين

Transliteration: Ḥanīn
Pronunciation: / həˈniːn /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Hanin stands.

Hanin 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

Hanins before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Mahmoud Darwish / nasib

Arabic longing yearning nostalgia + Mahmoud Darwish Palestinian poetry + classical Arabic qaṣīda nasib + pan-Arab literary heritage

Arab literature

Names connected to Hanin.

Numerology

The number behind Hanin.

The Leader

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