Sivan
Named after Sivan, one of the months of the Hebrew calendar. Just over a hundred people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them women, so most Poles have never met one.
Sivan Pronunciation
What Sivan means
Where Sivan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sivan is the name of the third month in the Hebrew calendar, falling across late spring, roughly May into June. It named a month first. The word entered Hebrew from Akkadian Simānu during the Babylonian exile, and it has marked that stretch of the year since. In Sivan the festival of Shavuot arrives, on the sixth day of the month.
Given to a child, the calendar word becomes a person. In modern Israel Sivan is borne mostly by women, though it began as no one's name at all. There are no Polish diminutives for it and no name-day slot in the calendar. The short meaning stays literal: month of the Hebrew calendar.
Picture a class register in a Warsaw school. A single Sivan among the Zuzannas and Zofias would sit oddly on the page, a Hebrew month written in Polish hand. The register lists it plainly: Sivan, month of the Hebrew calendar.
How many people are named Sivan
1 in 227715 women in Poland is named Sivan. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3329 among female names.
Sivan as a middle name
Sivan is a first name for 106 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2486th, between Sirin (10) and Sree (10).
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#2484 Sima10
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#2485 Sirin10
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#2486 Sivan10
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#2487 Sree10
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#2488 Stefaniia10