Entry № 9790 · Hebrew origin

Sivan Sivan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Third month (Sivan, the month of Shavuot)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "third month (sivan, the month of shavuot)".

Sivan (סִיוָן) is the Hebrew name of the third month of the Jewish calendar (May-June) — the month of Shavuot, the giving of the Torah at Sinai. A modern Israeli feminine name.

Sivan is widely used in modern Israel.

Sivan. The Hebrew month of Shavuot.

The name in its native script.

סִיוָן
Transliteration
Sīvān
Pronunciation
/ siːˈvɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sivan stands.

Sivan 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.

Sivans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sivan
Common in Israeli fiction.

Names connected to Sivan.

The number behind Sivan.

2

The Peacemaker

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