Entry № 4695 · Akkadian origin

Ishtar Ishtar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ISH-tar /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akkadian
Meaning
"Akkadian goddess of love and war"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Akkadian)

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

Ishtar (𒀭𒈹) is the Akkadian and Babylonian name for the Sumerian goddess Inanna — goddess of love, fertility, and warfare. The biblical Esther's name may derive from Ishtar. The Ishtar Gate (575 BCE) was the eighth gate of Babylon.

Ishtar is rare but distinctive.

The Akkadian Inanna. The Ishtar Gate of Babylon.

The name in its native script.

𒀭𒈹
Transliteration
Ishtar
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪʃ.tɑːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ishtar stands.

Ishtar 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.

Ishtars before her.

Real people
Ishtar
Akkadian goddess.
In fiction
Ishtar
Akkadian goddess.
Mesopotamian mythology

Names connected to Ishtar.

The number behind Ishtar.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ishtar reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.