Entry № 11689 · Hebrew origin

Yardena Yardena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yar-DEH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Feminine of Jordan (Yardena Arazi)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "feminine of jordan (yardena arazi)".

Yardena is from the Hebrew יַרְדֵּנָה (Yardēnāh — descender, to flow down) — feminine of Yarden (Jordan) from Hebrew yarad (to descend). Yardena is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish + Israeli heritage.

Feminine of Jordan (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

יַרְדֵּנָה
Transliteration
Yardēnāh
Pronunciation
/ jɑːrˈdɛ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yardena stands.

Yardena 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.

Yardenas before her.

Real people
Yardena Arazi
Israeli singer + Eurovision Song Contest 1988 Israel representative.
born 1951
In fiction
Jordan River / Yarden HaNahar
Sacred river in Israel + Jordan + crossing of Israelites Joshua 3 + Naaman 2 Kings 5 + baptism of Jesus Matthew 3 + ~250,000 annual Christian pilgrims at Yardenit.
Tanakh + Gospels

Names connected to Yardena.

The number behind Yardena.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yardena reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.