Baby name

STABLE UNISEX · HEBREW-SLAVIC-CHINESE
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Yan

/YAN/


“God is gracious”

Chinese, Hebrew, and Slavic name with multiple origins; in Hebrew it is a variant of Yann or John meaning 'God is gracious', and in Chinese contexts it carries meanings of 'swallow' or 'beautiful'.

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playful

How it ages.

Short and cross-cultural; works across multiple linguistic contexts.

The cultural moment.

Used in Brazil as an accessible short masculine name from the 2000s onward.