Atusa as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Atusa

What is the meaning of the name Atusa ?

The baby name Atusa is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced ah-TOO-sah (əˈtuːsə).

Atusa is Persian in Origin.

Atusa is a Persian feminine name, a modern transliteration of Atoosa/Atousa, ultimately descending from an Old Persian royal name recorded in Greek as Atossa. The ancient form, often reconstructed as Utauθa or Hutausā, has a debated etymology; many scholars link the first element to Iranian hu- “good,” yielding interpretations such as “well adorned,” “of good stature,” or broadly “beautiful,” though a precise meaning remains uncertain.

The name is closely associated with Queen Atossa, daughter of Cyrus the Great, wife of Darius I, and mother of Xerxes I, a powerful Achaemenid figure noted by Herodotus and portrayed in Aeschylus’s The Persians. Its imperial legacy has sustained use across Persian-speaking communities, with renewed popularity in modern Iran and the diaspora. Variants include Atoosa, Atousa, and the Hellenized Atossa; Atusa represents a streamlined contemporary transliteration.

⚙ Atusa is seldom given. We count 24 recorded uses of it across 7 countries.