Entry № 514 · Japanese origin

Amaterasu Amaterasu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-mah-teh-RAH-soo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"The sun goddess"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "the sun goddess".

Amaterasu is the great sun goddess of Japanese myth, the radiant ancestress of the imperial line and one of the supreme kami.

Her name means she who shines in heaven — brilliance itself.

The sun goddess — a name from Japanese myth.

The name in its native script.

Amaterasu
Transliteration
Amaterasu
Pronunciation
/ a.ma.teˈɾa.su /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amaterasu stands.

Amaterasu 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.

Amaterasus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Amaterasu.

The number behind Amaterasu.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amaterasu reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.