Entry № 6542 · Persian origin

Marjane Marjane — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mar-ZHAHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Coral (Iranian graphic novelist of Persepolis)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Persian)

A name that means "coral (iranian graphic novelist of persepolis)".

Marjane (مرجان) is the Persian-Arabic word for "coral" — Quranic (Surah Ar-Rahman 55:22).

Among the most internationally celebrated Iranian voices.

Coral (Iranian graphic novelist of Persepolis) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

مرجان
Transliteration
Marjān
Pronunciation
/ mɑːrˈʒɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marjane stands.

Marjane 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.

Marjanes before her.

Real people
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist.
born 1969
In fiction
Marjane
Persepolis.
2000-2003

Names connected to Marjane.

The number behind Marjane.

8

The Visionary

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