Entry № 11688 · Hebrew origin

Yarden Yarden — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAR-den /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Jordan (the river)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "jordan (the river)".

Yarden (יַרְדֵּן) is the Hebrew name of the Jordan River — from yarad (to descend). A modern unisex Israeli name.

Jordan. The Hebrew river.

The name in its native script.

יַרְדֵּן
Transliteration
Yardēn
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑːr.dɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yarden stands.

Yarden 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.

Yardens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yarden
Common in Israeli fiction.

Names connected to Yarden.

The number behind Yarden.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yarden reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.