Entry № 770 · Armenian origin

Anush Anush — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NOOSH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Armenian
Meaning
"Sweet, pleasant"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Armenian)

A name that means "sweet, pleasant".

Anush (Անուշ) is the Armenian word for "sweet" or "pleasant." It is also the title heroine of the 1890 narrative poem by Hovhannes Tumanyan, considered Armenia's national epic of romance.

Anush is widely used across Armenia and the Armenian diaspora.

Sweet. Tumanyan's tragic heroine.

The name in its native script.

Անուշ
Transliteration
Anush
Pronunciation
/ əˈnuːʃ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anush stands.

Anush 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.

Anushs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Anush
Tumanyan's 1890 narrative poem.
Armenian literature

Names connected to Anush.

The number behind Anush.

9

The Giver

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