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Atusa Atusa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-TOO-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Atossa Achaemenid queen (Aeschylus Persians)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "atossa achaemenid queen (aeschylus persians)".

Atusa is from the Persian آتوسا (Ātūsā — well-granting, well-trickling) — from Avestan hutaosā. Atusa is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional ancient Persian heritage.

Atossa Achaemenid queen (Persian).

The name in its native script.

آتوسا
Transliteration
Ātūsā
Pronunciation
/ əˈtuː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Atusa stands.

Atusa 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.

Atusas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Atossa
Achaemenid Empress + daughter of Cyrus the Great + wife of Darius I + mother of Xerxes I + Aeschylus's The Persians 472 BCE oldest surviving Greek tragedy + Herodotus's Histories + first recorded case of breast cancer in history.
c. 550 – 475 BCE

Names connected to Atusa.

The number behind Atusa.

8

The Visionary

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