Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Anahit is a variant of Anahita. An origin associated with Anahita is Persian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Anahit is a variant of Anahita. The history of Anahita gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Anahita is associated with a water goddess.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Anahit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 386
- 0 boys · 386 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,005 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +13%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,005 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 13.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,911 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Anahit’s family of names
Anahit has a related form in Anahita. In Armenian usage, Anahit is a transliteration of Անահիտ. In English usage, Anahit was borrowed from the Armenian form Անահիտ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Anahit
- Ana KasparianAmerican political punditborn 1986
- Anahit TsitsikianArmenian violinist, musicologist, teacher (1926–1999)
- Anahit BarseghyanArmenian swimmerborn 1994
- Anahit AnanyanSoviet Armenian agronomist (1909-1987)1900–1987
- Anahit MekhitarianArmenian operatic sopranoborn 1969
- Anahide Ter MinassianFrench historian (1929-2019)
- Anahit BayandurArmenian activist, translator (1940-2011)
- Anahit AvanesianArmenian jurist and politicianborn 1981
- Anahit Sahinyanwriter1917–2010
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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