Entry № 628 · Tamil origin

Anbu Anbu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHN-boo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"Love, affection"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "love, affection".

Anbu means love — warm, giving affection, prized in Tamil ethics as the root of all virtue. As a name it is simple and deep.

Love, affection — a Tamil name.

The name in its native script.

அன்பு
Transliteration
Aṉpu
Pronunciation
/ ˈan.bu /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anbu stands.

Anbu 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.

Anbus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Anbu.

The number behind Anbu.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anbu reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.