Sumerian & Mesopotamian Names
Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian traditions belong to a long and varied Mesopotamian history. This small collection includes divine names, epic characters, and historical royal names that also appear in U.S. birth records; it does not treat them all as Sumerian.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The name of the Assyrian national god and his city. | 32#3,518 | Down 755 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The Sumerian goddess associated with love, war, and the planet Venus. | 11#9,093 | Down 2,059 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
The Sumerian god associated with wisdom and fresh water. | 14#6,219 | Up 4,789 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The Akkadian name of the sky god known as An in Sumerian. | 9#8,304 | new | 2023 | ||
Sargon of Akkad founded an empire in the third millennium BCE. | —Unranked | — | 1985 | ||
A leading Sumerian god whose principal cult center was Nippur. | 6#11,059 | new | 2019 | ||
Gilgamesh's companion in the Mesopotamian epic tradition. | —Unranked | — | 2022 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.