Entry № 606 · Greek origin

Ananke Ananke — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NAN-kee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Goddess of necessity and fate"

Syllables

First recorded

Antiquity

The meaning

A name that means "goddess of necessity and fate".

Ananke is the primordial Greek goddess of necessity, inevitability and fate — one of the oldest of powers.

Weighty and ancient, her name speaks of the deep order of things.

Goddess of necessity and fate — a name from Greek myth.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ananke

Transliteration: Ananke
Pronunciation: / aˈnan.ke /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Ananke stands.

Ananke does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Anankes before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Ananke.

Numerology

The number behind Ananke.

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ananke reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.