Agrican as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Agrican

What is the meaning of the name Agrican ?

The baby name Agrican is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈæɡrɪkən/ (AG-ri-kan).

Agrican is in Origin.

Agrican is a literary male name from the Italian Renaissance epics, first attested in Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (c. 1483–1495) and echoed in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. It belongs to King Agrican(e) of Tartary, a formidable pagan foe who besieges Albracca for Angelica and falls to Orlando. As a given name it scarcely appears in historical records, surfacing only sporadically in modern times among admirers of chivalric romance.

The form varies across languages: Agricane in Italian, French, and Spanish; Agrican in English. Its precise meaning is unknown; the name is almost certainly a poetic coinage. Some readers link agri- to Latin ager “field” (cf. agricola “farmer”) or to Greek agrios “wild,” while others hear an echo of the steppe title khan in -cane - interpretations that remain speculative rather than etymologically proven.

⚙ Agrican is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Agrican appears only 1 time in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.