Entry № 9454 · Arabic origin

Shaden Shaden — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-DEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Young gazelle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "young gazelle".

Shaden is from the Arabic شادن (Shādhin — young gazelle, fawn). Shaden is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Arab heritage.

Young gazelle (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

شادن
Transliteration
Shādhin
Pronunciation
/ ʃɑːˈdɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shaden stands.

Shaden 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.

Shadens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shaden / ghazal
Arabic gazelle + pre-Islamic Mu'allaqat hung on Kaaba + Imru' al-Qais + ghazal poetic form + Hafez + Saadi + Rumi + Ghalib + Song of Solomon 2:9 + Arabian Oryx + national animal of Qatar.
Arabic poetic tradition

Names connected to Shaden.

The number behind Shaden.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shaden reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.