Marwān
مَرْوان
Say it mar-WAAN
Name of Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Found in
- Classical Arabic names
- Also spelled
- Marwan, Marwaan
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Lisān al-ʿArab records Marwān only as a man’s name and the name of a mountain; it gives no meaning, so we give none.
Who carried this name
- Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam, the Umayyad caliph al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (Muʾassasat al-Risālah ed.), vol. 3, p. 476 (entry 102)