Yarden
A Hebrew name meaning "flowing down" or "descending". In Poland it stays rare, carried by about 130 people and split fairly evenly between women and men.
Yarden Pronunciation
Yarden is pronounced ih-AHR-den (/ɨˈardɛn/).
What Yarden means
Where Yarden comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yarden comes from Hebrew, and it names a river before it names a child. In that language it belongs to the root y-r-d, meaning to go down, to descend. From that root comes Yarden, the Hebrew name of the Jordan River, water that runs down from the northern heights toward the Dead Sea. The short meaning, flowing down, descending, is the plain sense of the word.
The name is Jewish through and through. It sits in the Hebrew Bible as the great river of crossing, the boundary the people pass to reach the land. A child called Yarden holds the name of that water.
Yarden keeps no diminutives here. There is no shortened pet form, no separate boy and girl spelling to sort out. On a Polish class register it stands as one word, Yarden, and the teacher reads it whole.
The meaning stays literal. Descending, flowing down, the motion of a river toward lower ground.
How many people are named Yarden
1 in 268379 women in Poland is named Yarden. 130 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2929 among female names.
Yarden's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.