Entry № 3105 · 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
Grammatical form

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
Etenesh
Common Ethiopian name.

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.