Entry № 6973 · Slavic origin

Morana Morana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ moh-RAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Goddess of winter and rebirth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of winter and rebirth".

Morana is the Slavic goddess of winter, death and the returning of spring — the turning of the year made divine.

Her name carries the whole cycle of cold and renewal.

Goddess of winter and rebirth — a name from Slavic myth.

The name in its native script.

Morana
Transliteration
Morana
Pronunciation
/ moˈɾa.na /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Morana stands.

Morana 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.

Moranas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Morana.

The number behind Morana.

8

The Visionary

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