Entry № 7187 · Mesopotamian origin

Nanaya Nanaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-NAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mesopotamian
Meaning
"An ancient goddess of love"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "an ancient goddess of love".

Nanaya was a Mesopotamian goddess of love and desire, worshipped for thousands of years across Sumer and Babylon.

An ancient goddess of love — a Mesopotamian name.

The name in its native script.

Nanaya
Transliteration
Nanaya
Pronunciation
/ naˈna.ja /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nanaya stands.

Nanaya 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.

Nanayas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nanaya.

The number behind Nanaya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nanaya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.