Entry № 9293 · Hurrian origin

Šauška Šauška — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAOO-shkah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hurrian
Meaning
"Hurrian goddess of love and war"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hurrian)

A name that means "hurrian goddess of love and war".

Šauška (also Shaushka) was the Hurrian goddess of love, fertility, and war — sister of the storm-god Teshub, counterpart to the Mesopotamian Ishtar/Inanna. Famous for the legend in which she was sent to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III to heal him — the statue of Ishtar of Nineveh that traveled to Egypt is recorded in the Amarna letters.

Hurrian goddess of love and war — a Hurrian name.

The name in its native script.

𒀭𒊭𒍑𒃷
Transliteration
Šauška
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃaʊ.ʃkə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Šauška stands.

Šauška 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.

Šauškas before her.

Real people
Šauška
Hurrian goddess.
In fiction
Šauška
Treaty of Kadesh; Amarna letters.

Names connected to Šauška.

The number behind Šauška.

8

The Visionary

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