100 Babylonian Names With Meanings.
Anatu - Derived from ‘Anat,’ the Semitic goddess of fertility and war, meaning an intuitive woman who is sensitive, passionate, and introspective.
Anunit - Goddess of the moon and battle.
Aralu - A nether-world that is expansive, but dark and gloomy.
Aruru - Goddess of creation, known for creating Enkidu using clay in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Bau - Goddess of life and healing, depicted as a lady with a dog head, daughter of the dog star ‘Sirius.’
Belatsunat - Name of an early queen of Babylonia.
Belili - Sister of the Sumerian God of fertility, ‘Tammuz,’ and companion to ‘Alala,’ a Hurrian deity.
Beltis - Means ‘a lady par excellence.’
Damkina - Goddess of Earth and mother of Marduk, the tutelary God of Babylon.
Davke - Female form of Earth.
Gaga - Deity of Babylon.
Gula - Goddess of healing and medicine in the Babylonian era, also known as Ninkarrak.
Ishtar - Sumerian goddess of war and fertility, with several temples, altars, and inscriptions in her name.
Kalumtum - Beautiful Babylonian name meaning ‘a young sheep.’
Kishar - Refers to ‘the whole earth,’ companion of Anshar, a primordial god in Babylon.
Lilith - Night-demon in Babylon and, in Jewish mythology, considered Adam’s first wife.
Mot - God of the underworld worshipped by the people of Ugarit.
Mylitta - Goddess of Babylon representing love, fertility, and war.
Omarosa - Sweet name meaning ‘the sea.’
Sabitum - Refers to a ‘sea goddess’ in Babylon.
Sarpanitum - Companion of Marduk, the patron god.
Shala - Sumerian goddess of grain and compassion, consort of the Babylonian God of thunder, Adad.
Sybella - Variant of the name Sybil, meaning ‘prophetess.’
Tashmitum - Partner of Nabu, God of vegetation.
Tiamat - Name of a goddess meaning ‘chaos.’
Zirratbanit - Partner of Marduk, the patron God of Babylon.
Adrahasis - Means a person of great intelligence or a sage.
Allamu - Babylonian name meaning ‘the omniscient.’
Apsu - Refers to fresh water from underground aquifers used in religious ceremonies in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology.
Baal - Babylonian name meaning lord or master.
Balasi - Name of a Chaldean astronomer.
Bel - Derived from the name ‘baal,’ signifying ‘lord.’
Belshazzar - Eldest son of King Nabonidus and regent in the absence of his father.
Berossus - Name of a Babylonian writer, astronomer, and priest of BelMarduk.
Cit - Name of the Sun god worshipped by the people of Kassites.
Dagan - Known as the ‘Earth god,’ credited with discovering the plow.
Enmeduranki - Name of the seventh King of Sippar, meaning ‘chief of the powers’ and ‘the meeting place of heaven and earth.’
Haldita - Name of the father of the rebel Arakhu, derived from ‘Haldi,’ one of the deities of the Urartian kingdom.
Hammurabi - Sixth king of the Babylonian empire, known for issuing the ‘Code of Hammurabi.’
Harbishihu - Name of an ancient Babylonian king.
Ibilsin - Name of the King of Ur.
Idadu - Name of the ancient King of Ridu.
Igigi - Refers to the ‘Gods of heaven,’ believed to be the younger gods serving the Anunnaki.
Ilu - Means ‘god’ in Babylonian.
Irshusin - Name of a Babylonian monarch.
Izdubar - One of the early names of Gilgamesh, meaning ‘mass of fire.’
Kingu - Refers to a demon in Sumerian mythology, son of the gods Abzu and Tiamat, meaning “unskilled laborer.”
Kinziru - Name of the Chaldean prince.
Kissare - Name of the first three gods of Mesopotamian era.
Laborosoarchod - Name of a king of Babylon.
Labashi-Marduk - Akkadian name meaning ‘may I not come to shame,’ name of a king of the Babylonian empire.
Lakhmu - Also known as Lahmu, deity of zodiac and constellations of stars.
Makru - One of the names of the Babylonian deity Marduk, the tutelary God of Babylon.
Marduk - Tutelary deity of Babylon, later associated with magic, vegetation, water, and judgment.
Merodach - One of the names of the deity Marduk, also meaning ‘easy success.’
Mulagunnuna - Name of an ancient Chaldean King.
Mummu - Mesopotamian deity whose name means ‘life-giving force.’
Muranu - According to Babylonian myth, refers to a ‘little lion.’
Nabonahid - Means ‘Nebo is majestic,’ praising the god of wisdom.
Nabonassar - Refers to Nabu, the god of literacy, as ‘the protector.’
Nabopalassar - First king of the neo-Babylonian era.
Nabuchodrosser - Name of the son of King Nabonadius, the last king of neo-Babylonian period.
Naditabirus - Means a gift by ‘bel,’ meaning lord or master.
Namtar - Name of a demon in Babylonian myth, presiding over diseases and illness.
Nanna - Mesopotamian God of the moon and wisdom, symbolized by the recumbent moon.
Nebo - Name of the ‘God of wisdom’ in Babylon, tutelary god of scribes and schools.
Nergal - In ancient Babylon, a ‘dunghill cock’ was called Nergal.
Ninib - Believed to be the ‘God of war,’ associated with the biblical figure Nimrod, King of Mesopotamia.
Nurval - Name of a Babylonian king.
Nusku - Name associated with the ‘God of fire and light,’ first child of Enlil, the ‘God of wind.’
Otiartes - Refers to a Chaldaean King.
Pahas-Bel - Name of the governor of the city of Amida in Mesopotamia, currently Diyarbakır in Turkey.
Ramman - Also known as the ‘thunderer,’ name of the God of storm.
Riisvul - Name of the last king of the city of Apirak.
Rim-Agu - One of the Babylonian kings.
Rimsin - Name of the last king of the city-state in Sumer of Mesopotamia.
Saga-Saltiyas - Name of a Babylonian king.
Sar - Refers to a ‘King’ or ‘Lord.’
Sardanapalus - Name of the last 30 kings of Assyria, meaning ‘protector of the heart.’
Sargina - Name of a mythical king belonging to the Sumerian civilization.
Shamas - Sumerian name meaning ‘the sun.’
Sibi - Also known as ‘Seven,’ a ‘warrior god’ of the Babylonian civilization.
Sige - Name in Mesopotamian myth meaning ‘the heaven.’
Tammuz - Sumerian name of the ‘God of fertility and new life.’
Tamzi - Means the ‘sun of life.’
Tu - Name of the ‘God of death’ in the Babylonian civilization.
Ubaratutu - Refers to the one who worships the God Tutu.
Ulam-Khala - Name of the child of Gula, the ‘Goddess of healing.’
Ummiah-Ziriti - Name of one of the kings of the Kassites, people who controlled Babylon for a brief period.
Ur - City-state in Mesopotamia.
Uras - Earth goddess and partner to Anu, the god of the sky, also meaning ‘heaven’ in Sumerian myth.
Urhammu - Sumerian name meaning ‘rays of the sun.’
Urhamsi - Name of the boatman, friend of Izdubar.
Urukh - Servant of the Moon God, Acu.
Utultar - Ancient Babylonian name referring to ‘the light of the heavenly spark.’
Zabu - Name of the Monarch of Sippara.
Zaidu - Means a valiant hunter.
Zamama - Name of the warrior Sun God and the patron god of the city of Kish.
Zamana - Refers to a deity for whom King Hammurabi created the Ziggurrat, a pyramidal stepped temple, known as ‘the tower of the country.’
Zicu - In the Babylonian empire, Zicu means ‘heaven.’
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