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Wapan Wapan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WAH-pan /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dawn"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Cree)

A name that means "dawn".

Wapan is from the Cree Wâpan — dawn, daybreak. Wapan is one of the Cree feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Cree Indigenous Algonquian heritage of Canada + United States.

Dawn (Cree Indigenous Algonquian).

The name in its native script.

Wâpan
Transliteration
Wâpan
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɑː.pən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wapan stands.

Wapan 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.

Wapans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wapan
Cree dawn.

Names connected to Wapan.

The number behind Wapan.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wapan reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.