Entry № 999 · Hebrew origin

Asnat Asnat — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHS-naht /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"First female rabbi in history (Kurdish-Jewish)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hebrew)

A name that means "first female rabbi in history (kurdish-jewish)".

Asnat is the Hebrew name from Genesis (Joseph's Egyptian wife). Asnat Barzani (c. Three Hebrew letters and poems by her survive.

Featured in modern Kurdish-Jewish memorial literature.

First female rabbi in history.

The name in its native script.

אסנת
Transliteration
Asnat
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːs.nɑːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Asnat stands.

Asnat 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.

Asnats before her.

Real people
Asnat Barzani
First female rabbi (Kurdish-Jewish).
c. 1590 – 1670
In fiction
Asnat
Kurdish-Jewish literary tradition.

Names connected to Asnat.

The number behind Asnat.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Asnat reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.