Maayan
From the Hebrew *maayan*, the spring where groundwater rises to the surface and flows. Most Poles have never met one, and it is given to girls and boys alike, with no separate form for either.
Maayan Pronunciation
Maayan is pronounced mah-ah-IH-ahn (/maaˈɨan/).
What Maayan means
Where Maayan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Maayan comes from Hebrew, where the word maayan names a spring of water, the place where groundwater breaks the surface and flows. The name is Jewish in association, given to girls and boys alike in modern Israel. It stays close to its meaning. There is no diminutive, no softened variant, no cross-gender twin. What you hear is the plain noun, źródło in Polish.
A spring is not a river and not a rainfall. It is water that rises on its own, fed from below. Hebrew keeps that image alive in ordinary speech, where a maayan is still a real thing you can walk to and drink from.
On a Polish class register the name would sit apart, unfamiliar next to Zofia and Jakub. That distance is part of the gift. A child called Maayan holds a Hebrew common noun, spring of water, with nothing added and nothing worn away.
How many people are named Maayan
1 in 152323 women in Poland is named Maayan. 189 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2303 among female names.
Maayan as a middle name
Maayan is a first name for 189 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6307th, between Lyra (2) and Macy (2).
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#6305 Lyda2
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#6306 Lyra2
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#6307 Maayan2
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#6308 Macy2
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#6309 Madalyn2