Asenith as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Asenith

What is the meaning of the name Asenith ?

The baby name Asenith is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced uh-SEE-nith,uh-SEE-nath,əˈsiːnɪθ,əˈsiːnæθ.

Asenith is Egyptian in Origin.

Asenith is a modern Anglicized variant of Asenath/Aseneth, ultimately tracing to Hebrew Osnat, which preserves an Egyptian theophoric name. Most scholars interpret it as "belonging to Neith" or "devoted to Neith," invoking the goddess Neith; a secondary gloss is "gift of Neith." The Greek Bible renders the name as Aseneth, and medieval and early modern Latin sources follow similar spellings, which fed later English forms.

The name enters Scripture in Genesis as the Egyptian wife of Joseph and mother of Manasseh and Ephraim, and it later became the focus of the Hellenistic Jewish romance Joseph and Aseneth. In English-speaking lands, Asenath saw sporadic use among 17th- and 18th-century Puritans in New England, then faded to rarity. Today the cognate Osnat (also Asnat) is well established in Israel. Established variants include Asenath, Aseneth, Asnat/Osnat, and the rarer Osnath; Asenith is a contemporary respelling.

⚙ Asenith is vanishingly rare. We hold just 1 recorded use of it, from 1 country.