What is the meaning of the name Ayan?

Answer 1

• Somali Female name: Ayan pronounced Ayaan has the meaning: Fortunate and Day, though the 'day' meaning is taken from the Arabic Ayyaam which means DAYS.
• I think there is a Turkish meaning, don't know what though.
• Sanskrit meaning: Derived from the root i with cognates all over the Indoeuropean languages e.g. ειμι, iter, иду, signifying motion, one gets aYan, the act of going, or the path, and is used both literally and figuratively. A peculiar development also led to it meaning a house or place of refuge.

  But all that is about ayana, not aayana; i.e. the first vowel is as in cut or cot, not as in car. That can happen in Sanskrit if one uses the prefix A to the above word, in which case the meaning changes from going to coming, and Ayana usually means approaching, though it can mean income as well. Alternatively, since ayana has celestial significance, Ayana can mean belonging to the solistice. I do not think that either of these two aayan is used as a name.

  Forgot to mention that AYAna (or aayaan if you prefer) is a very famous character n mythology: AYAna ghoSa was the husband of rAdhA, the heartthrob and lover of kRSNa, the playful pastoral God, an incarnation of viSNu, the protector amongst the Hindu trinity.

  AYAna can mean arrival, and natural temperament.

• Another view: The sanskrit meaning is incorrect. satyanArAYaNa comes from satya = truth (or, etymologically, that which exists from the root as, to be, with obvious cognates) + nArAYaNa (descendent of nara, man, with cognates in Greek and Latin). The word nArAYaNa was identified as the first man, the creator, etc. in the past, but now refers to ViSNu, the protector amongst the Hindu trinity.
• Another view: Hi, we are Hindu and named our son Ayan. One thing we liked about it was that it is such a cross-cultural name. The meanings we researched are as follows:

  1. Hindu/Tamil: Brahma, the God of Creation, also one of the 1000 names of Lord Ganesha (Hindu God)

  2. Sanskrit: Soaked in the Divine (as in Satyanarayan)

  3. Biblical: Motion, To Arrive (related to Noah); Iian, which is pronounced like Ayan, is the Scottish variation of John

  4. Hebrew: Nothingness, Peace

  5. Persian: Notable

  6. Islam/Arabic: God's Gift

  7. Several African Languages: Center Part of the Soul.