Entry № 10322 · Phoenician origin

Tanit Tanit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-neet /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Phoenician
Meaning
"Carthaginian sky goddess (national symbol)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Phoenician)

A name that means "carthaginian sky goddess (national symbol)".

Tanit is from the Phoenician/Punic Tanit — the chief goddess of Carthage.

and modern Tunisian culture.

Carthaginian sky goddess.

The name in its native script.

𐤕𐤍𐤕
Transliteration
Tanit
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.niːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tanit stands.

Tanit 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.

Tanits before her.

Real people
Tanit Phoenix
South African actress.
born 1980
In fiction
Tanit
Carthaginian chief goddess.

Names connected to Tanit.

The number behind Tanit.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tanit reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.