Entry № 7501 · Hebrew origin

Nirit Nirit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Asphodel wildflower (Israeli botanical)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hebrew)

A name that means "asphodel wildflower (israeli botanical)".

Nirit is from the Hebrew נִירִית (Nīrīt — Asphodelus / Asphodel wildflower). Nirit is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Israeli heritage. Hebrew feminine name reflecting Israeli botanical heritage.

Asphodel wildflower (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

נִירִית
Transliteration
Nīrīt
Pronunciation
/ niːˈriːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nirit stands.

Nirit 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.

Nirits before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nirit / Asphodel
Asphodelus aestivus wildflower + Asphodel Meadows in Homer's Odyssey Book 11 + Virgil's Aeneid Book 6 + Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Hebrew renaissance.
Israeli flora

Names connected to Nirit.

The number behind Nirit.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nirit reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.