Entry № 4408 · Scandinavian origin

Iben Iben — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Scandinavian
Meaning
"The yew bow"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the yew bow".

Iben is a name of Scandinavian origin, meaning the bow of the yew tree.

The yew bow — a Scandinavian name.

The name in its native script.

Iben
Transliteration
Iben
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Iben stands.

Iben does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ibens before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Iben.

The number behind Iben.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iben reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.