Anat
A Hebrew name meaning "water spring". In Poland only about 300 women carry it and hardly any newborns get it, so most Poles have never met one.
Anat Pronunciation
Anat is pronounced AH-naht (/ˈanat/).
What Anat means
Where Anat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anat comes from Hebrew, and it belongs almost entirely to women. Read as a water spring, the name points to the place where fresh water rises out of dry ground. It stays close to water. In the Polish gloss the sense turns toward kobieta and kobiecość, so a Polish reader meets it first as a thoroughly feminine name.
The Jewish association is strong. In modern Israel Anat became an ordinary secular choice, given far more often than it is ever explained. The activist Anat Hoffman, long a leader of the campaign for women's prayer at the Western Wall, is one well-documented bearer.
On a Polish class register the name would sit a little apart from the Anias and Anitas around it, short and unhyphenated, with no diminutive of its own. What it offers instead is the older picture behind the letters: a spring of water in Hebrew.
How many people are named Anat
1 in 74157 women in Poland is named Anat. 304 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1733 among female names.
Anat as a middle name
Anat is a first name for 304 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2360th, between Ambrozja (10) and Andree (10).
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#2358 Alix10
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#2359 Ambrozja10
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#2360 Anat10
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#2361 Andree10
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#2362 Angélique10