Anush
Hebrew for "sweet". So rare in Poland that most people have never met one: barely a hundred carry it, and nearly all of them are women.
Anush Pronunciation
What Anush means
Where Anush comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anush traces back to Hebrew, and the sense carried in it is plain: sweet. In Polish the same idea lands as słodki. The name runs to two syllables and sits easily in a Polish mouth, with no cluster of consonants to trip over.
A word for sweetness is a generous thing to hand a child. It names a quality people reach for in fruit and in a voice, and it rests on the person who holds it. It does not describe a temperament, and it promises nothing.
Picture the register on the first day of school, the teacher reading down the column and stopping at Anush. The name stands out without shouting. Whoever answers to it answers to a small Hebrew word that means sweet.
How many people are named Anush
1 in 225438 women in Poland is named Anush. 102 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3394 among female names.