Anahit
The name carries the sense of "immaculate, undefiled". Only about 168 women in Poland hold it, so most Poles will never meet one, and hardly a girl has been registered with it in recent years.
Anahit Pronunciation
Anahit is pronounced ah-NAH-kheet (/aˈnaxit/).
What Anahit means
Where Anahit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anahit comes from Old Iranian. The name splits into an-, "not," and āhita, "unclean" or "sullied." Together they mean "immaculate, undefiled." That reading is the origin rather than a gloss added later, and Polish keeps it as niepokalana, nieskalana.
The oldest written form is the Avestan Anāhitā, which appears in the Aban Yasht, a Zoroastrian hymn, as an epithet for a figure connected to fresh water and fertility. Armenian took the name up as Anahit and has kept it as a woman's name ever since. The meaning is old.
On a Polish class register the form stands out, with no diminutive and no Polish variant beside it. A teacher meets the final -t and reads it straight. For a Polish speaker the surprise is that ending, since native feminine names lean on -a. What stays fixed under all of it is the built-in sense: niepokalana.
How many people are named Anahit
1 in 134189 women in Poland is named Anahit. 168 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2473 among female names.
Anahit as a middle name
Anahit is a first name for 168 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3950th, between Amma (4) and Anait (4).
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