Entry № 4518 · Sumerian origin

Inanna Inanna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-NAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sumerian
Meaning
"Sumerian goddess of love and war"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sumerian)

A name that means "sumerian goddess of love and war".

Inanna (𒀭𒈹) is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and warfare — among the oldest documented deities in human history (c. 4000 BCE). The Akkadians called her Ishtar.

Inanna is rare but rising as ancient goddesses gain new attention.

Sumerian goddess of love and war — a Sumerian name.

The name in its native script.

𒀭𒈹
Transliteration
Inanna
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈnɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Inanna stands.

Inanna 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.

Inannas before her.

Real people
Inanna
Sumerian goddess.
In fiction
Inanna
Sumerian goddess of love.
Sumerian mythology

Names connected to Inanna.

The number behind Inanna.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Inanna reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.