Entry № 5205 · Sanskrit origin

Kanan Kanan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-nahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Forest / Kanan Devi (Bengali cinema)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "forest / kanan devi (bengali cinema)".

Kanan is from the Sanskrit Kānana.

Forest / Kanan Devi (Bengali cinema) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कानन
Transliteration
Kānana
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑː.nən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kanan stands.

Kanan 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.

Kanans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kanan Devi Bengali cinema / Dadasaheb Phalke Award 1976
Sanskrit forest grove wilderness + Ramayana forest-exile of Rama + Sita + Lakshmana + Mahabharata Vana Parva Pandavas + Kanan Devi 1916-1992 first female superstar Bengali cinema + New Theatres Calcutta + Padma Shri 1968 + Dadasaheb Phalke 1976
Bengali cinema

Names connected to Kanan.

The number behind Kanan.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kanan reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.