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Azeb Azeb — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-zeb /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"South wind (Azeb Mesfin - Ethiopian First Lady)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Ge'ez)

A name that means "south wind (azeb mesfin - ethiopian first lady)".

Azeb is from the Ge'ez/Amharic አዜብ (Azeb) — south, south wind. Azeb Mesfin (born 1958) is an Ethiopian politician and businesswoman — wife of former Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (1955-2012) and First Lady of Ethiopia (1995-2012).

South wind (Amharic-Ge'ez).

The name in its native script.

አዜብ
Transliteration
Azeb
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.zɛb /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Azeb stands.

Azeb 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.

Azebs before her.

Real people
Azeb Mesfin
First Lady of Ethiopia 1995-2012 + EFFORT founder.
born 1958
In fiction
Azeb
Amharic south wind.

Names connected to Azeb.

The number behind Azeb.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Azeb reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.