Entry № 4777 · Persian origin

Jahan Jahan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jah-HAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"World (Nur Jahan - Mughal empress + de facto co-regent)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "world (nur jahan - mughal empress + de facto co-regent)".

Jahan is from the Persian jahān (جہاں — world). Her regnal title Nur Jahan (نور جہاں — Light of the World) was conferred by Jahangir in 1616. She was de facto co-regent of the Mughal Empire (1611-1627) — managing the imperial administration, farman (imperial decrees), and coinage bearing her name (the only Mughal empress to have coins issued in her name). She founded the Itimad-ud-Daula Tomb (Agra, 1626-1628) — architectural predecessor to the Taj Mahal — and was aunt of Mumtaz Mahal.

World (Nur Jahan - Mughal empress + de facto co-regent) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

جہاں
Transliteration
Jahān
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈhɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jahan stands.

Jahan 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.

Jahans before her.

Real people
Nur Jahan
Mughal empress + de facto co-regent.
1577 – 1645
In fiction
Jahan
Persian world.

Names connected to Jahan.

The number behind Jahan.

7

The Seeker

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