Entry № 7156 · Sumerian origin

Nammu Nammu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-moo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sumerian
Meaning
"Sumerian primordial sea-goddess (mother of all)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sumerian)

A name that means "sumerian primordial sea-goddess (mother of all)".

Nammu (𒀭𒇉) is the Sumerian primordial creator goddess — the personification of the primeval sea (engur) from which heaven and earth were born. Mother of An (sky), Ki (earth), and Enki (wisdom) — she molded the first humans from the clay above the abzu. One of the oldest known mother-creator deities in any human religion.

Featured in the Sumerian creation tablets.

Sumerian primordial sea. The mother-creator from whom An and Ki were born.

The name in its native script.

𒀭𒇉
Transliteration
Nammu
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑː.muː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nammu stands.

Nammu 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.

Nammus before her.

Real people
Nammu
Sumerian primordial goddess.
In fiction
Nammu
Sumerian creation tablets.

Names connected to Nammu.

The number behind Nammu.

8

The Visionary

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