Entry № 592 · Hebrew origin

Anah Anah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Answer (discoverer of hot springs)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "answer (discoverer of hot springs)".

Anah (עֲנָה) means "answer" or "reply" in Hebrew. In Genesis 36:24, Anah was the discoverer of the hot springs in the wilderness while pasturing his father Zibeon's donkeys — one of the few biblical women credited with a discovery.

Mother (or father) of Aholibamah, Esau's Hivite wife.

Answer. Discoverer of the wilderness hot springs.

The name in its native script.

עֲנָה
Transliteration
ʿĂnāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anah stands.

Anah 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.

Anahs before her.

Real people
Anah
Discoverer of hot springs.
In fiction
Anah
Genesis 36:24.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Anah.

The number behind Anah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.