Entry № 422 · Ethiopian origin

Etenesh Etenesh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-teh-nesh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ethiopian
Meaning
"You are my sister (Ethiopian)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Amharic)

A name that means "you are my sister (ethiopian)".

Etenesh (እትነሽ) means "you are my sister" in Amharic — a name given to a daughter born after a beloved sister, or as a name of close kinship. A poetic Ethiopian feminine name.

Used widely in Ethiopia.

You are my sister. The Ethiopian.

The name in its native script.

እትነሽ
Transliteration
Itinesh
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛ.tə.nɛʃ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Etenesh stands.

Etenesh 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.

Eteneshs before her.

Real people
Etenesh Diro
Ethiopian Olympic steeplechase runner.
born 1991
In fiction

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Names connected to Etenesh.

The number behind Etenesh.

4

The Builder

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