Entry № 624 · Hebrew origin

Anat Anat — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NAHT /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Ancient war goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "ancient war goddess".

Anat (עֲנָת) was the Phoenician and Canaanite goddess of war and fertility — sister-consort of Baal, sometimes paired with the Ugaritic Anat-Yahu. Anat as a personal name appears in the Hebrew Bible (Judges 3:31 — Shamgar son of Anath).

Anat is widely used in modern Israel.

The Phoenician war goddess.

The name in its native script.

עֲנָת
Transliteration
ʿAnāṯ
Pronunciation
/ əˈnɑːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anat stands.

Anat 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.

Anats before her.

Real people
Anat Cohen
Israeli jazz clarinetist.
born 1975
In fiction
Anat
Phoenician war goddess.
Ugaritic mythology

Names connected to Anat.

The number behind Anat.

9

The Giver

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