Entry № 594 · Armenian origin

Anahit Anahit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-nah-HEET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Armenian
Meaning
"Goddess of fertility and wisdom"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of fertility and wisdom".

Anahit is the great mother goddess of ancient Armenia — of fertility, healing, wisdom and water, the most honoured of deities.

Noble and nurturing, her name is a national treasure of Armenia.

Goddess of fertility and wisdom — a name from Armenian myth.

The name in its native script.

Anahit
Transliteration
Anahit
Pronunciation
/ a.naˈhit /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anahit stands.

Anahit 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.

Anahits before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Anahit.

The number behind Anahit.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anahit reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.