Entry № 644 · Greek origin

Anemone Anemone — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NEM-oh-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Windflower"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "windflower".

Anemone is the windflower, from the Greek anemos, wind — a bloom said to open at the breezes touch.

Delicate and poetic, it is one of the loveliest of the flower names.

Windflower — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Anemone
Transliteration
Anemone
Pronunciation
/ aˈne.mo.ne /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anemone stands.

Anemone 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.

Anemones before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Anemone.

The number behind Anemone.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anemone reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.