Entry № 542 · Filipino origin

Amihan Amihan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-MEE-hahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Filipino
Meaning
"Northeast monsoon wind"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Filipino)

A name that means "northeast monsoon wind".

Amihan is the Tagalog word for the cool northeast monsoon wind that blows over the Philippines from November to February. In Visayan mythology, Amihan was the first creature created — a sea bird who freed the first humans from a bamboo stalk.

Amihan is rising in modern Filipino naming.

Northeast wind. The Filipino creation bird.

The name in its native script.

Amihan
Transliteration
Amihan
Pronunciation
/ əˈmiː.hən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amihan stands.

Amihan 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.

Amihans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Amihan
Heroine of Encantadia.
Philippine TV series

Names connected to Amihan.

The number behind Amihan.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amihan reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.