Entry № 2302 · Celtic origin

Danu Danu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-noo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"The mother goddess of the Irish gods"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "the mother goddess of the irish gods".

Danu is the great mother goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the divine race of Irish myth named for her.

Ancient and nurturing, her name is the wellspring of a whole pantheon.

The mother goddess of the Irish gods — a name from Celtic myth.

The name in its native script.

Danu
Transliteration
Danu
Pronunciation
/ ˈda.nu /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Danu stands.

Danu 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.

Danus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Danu.

The number behind Danu.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Danu reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.