Entry № 7862 · Hebrew origin

Osnat Osnat — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ohs-NAHT /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Belonging to Neith / consecrated (Asenath wife of Joseph)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "belonging to neith / consecrated (asenath wife of joseph)".

Osnat is from the Hebrew אָסְנַת (ʾOsnaṯ — belonging to Neith, dedicated to Neith) — Hebrew rendition of Egyptian Iset-Net (Isis-Neith). Osnat is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish heritage. subject of pan-Hebrew patriarchal-narrative heritage. Hebrew feminine name reflecting biblical Egyptian-Hebrew heritage.

Belonging to Neith (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

אָסְנַת
Transliteration
ʾOsnaṯ
Pronunciation
/ ɒsˈnɑːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Osnat stands.

Osnat 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.

Osnats before her.

Real people

In fiction
Asenath / Osnat
Egyptian wife of Joseph + mother of Ephraim + Manasseh + Genesis 41:45.
Tanakh

Names connected to Osnat.

The number behind Osnat.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Osnat reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.