Entry № 5907 · Mapuche origin

Likan Likan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEE-kahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mapuche
Meaning
"A sacred quartz stone"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a sacred quartz stone".

Likan names a small, sacred quartz crystal in Mapuche belief, carried by the machi (healer) as a stone of power.

Clear and grounded, it is a rare name of earth and spirit from Patagonia.

A sacred quartz stone — a Mapuche name.

The name in its native script.

Likan
Transliteration
Likan
Pronunciation
/ ˈli.kan /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Likan stands.

Likan 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.

Likans before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Likan.

The number behind Likan.

2

The Peacemaker

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