Entry № 250 · Hebrew origin

Ahinoam Ahinoam — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-hee-NOH-am /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"My brother is pleasant (David's wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "my brother is pleasant (david's wife)".

Ahinoam (אֲחִינֹעַם) means "my brother is pleasant" in Hebrew. Two biblical women bore the name — King Saul's wife (1 Samuel 14:50) and David's wife from Jezreel (1 Samuel 25:43), mother of Amnon, his firstborn.

Rare but iconic in biblical scholarship.

My brother is pleasant. David's wife, mother of Amnon.

The name in its native script.

אֲחִינֹעַם
Transliteration
ʾĂḥînōʿam
Pronunciation
/ əˈhiː.noʊ.æm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ahinoam stands.

Ahinoam 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.

Ahinoams before her.

Real people
Ahinoam
David's wife.
Achinoam Nini
Israeli singer (Noa).
born 1969
In fiction
Ahinoam
1 Samuel 25:43.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Ahinoam.

The number behind Ahinoam.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ahinoam reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.