Baby name
FADING
🇺🇸 🇪🇬 Nirvana
/near · VAH · nah/
Meaning
“Perfect peace, liberation”
From Sanskrit, literally 'blown out' or 'extinguished'. In Buddhist and Hindu teaching, nirvana is the state of perfect peace reached when suffering and desire are released, describing freedom from the cycle of rebirth.
Vibe
peaceful
How it ages.
Bold and meaningful: a name with real spiritual weight, better suited to families who love its Buddhist roots than those wanting something conventional.
The cultural moment.
Uncommon as a first name in the United States, and used occasionally by Arabic-speaking families in Egypt as well.