Entry № 5393 · Hebrew origin

Keren Keren — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEH-ren /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Ray of light / horn (Keren-Happuch daughter of Job)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "ray of light / horn (keren-happuch daughter of job)".

Keren is from the Hebrew קֶרֶן (Qeren — horn, ray, beam of light). Keren is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish heritage. Hebrew feminine name reflecting biblical heritage.

Ray of light / horn (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

קֶרֶן
Transliteration
Qeren
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɛ.rɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Keren stands.

Keren 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.

Kerens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Keren-Happuch
Youngest daughter of Job + most beautiful women in the land + Book of Job 42:14.
Tanakh

Names connected to Keren.

The number behind Keren.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Keren reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.