Marwan is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “flint stone.” In 2024 it was given to 48 boys in the United States.
Marwan at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“flint stone”
About the name Marwan
Marwan belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “flint stone” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Marwan first appears in Social Security records in 1961. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2328 in 1974, and in 2024 48 babies received the name — 1,309 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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