Anahita (Old Persian Anāhitā) is the ancient Persian goddess of the waters, fertility, healing, and wisdom. The name means "immaculate" or "unstained" — referring to the purity of flowing water.
Anahita is widely used in Iran. In the U.S. it remains in the Iranian diaspora.
Anahita 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anahita reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.