Eapen
Origin
Syriac
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
“Kerala form of Stephen (Greek stephanos, crown) via Syriac Estappanos; the fuller form Esthappen appears in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things as the twin Estha”
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Eapen has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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