Swann

French

"nature and literary name"

Swann Origin and Meaning

The name Swann is a boy's name meaning "nature and literary name".

A unisex French name that ranks in the Top 200 for boys and the Top 500 for girls there, inspired by a character with the surname Swann in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. As a given name, it was popularized by the 1984 film Un amour de Swann ("Swann in Love"), directed by Volker Schlöndorff.