Entry № 7496 · French origin

Ninon Ninon — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nee-NOHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Grace"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "grace".

Ninon is a French pet form of Anne, itself from the Hebrew for grace and favour.

It is remembered through Ninon de l'Enclos, the celebrated seventeenth-century French wit and woman of letters, which gives it a spark of intelligence and independence.

A French Anne — playful and chic.

The name in its native script.

Ninon
Transliteration
Ninon
Pronunciation
/ ninɔ̃ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ninon stands.

Ninon 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.

Ninons before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ninon.

The number behind Ninon.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ninon reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.