Cush as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Cush

What is the meaning of the name Cush ?

The baby name Cush is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /kuːʃ/ (KOOSH).

Cush is Hebrew in Origin.

Cush is the Anglicized form of Hebrew Kūš (כּוּשׁ), a biblical personal and place name linked to the land south of Egypt. The term likely reflects the ancient Egyptian toponym kꜣš for Nubia, later associated in Greek and Latin with Aithiopia. Its precise meaning is debated; many traditions gloss it as “dark/black” or “burnt,” while scholars treat it chiefly as an ethnogeographic name. In the Hebrew Bible Cush is listed as a son of Ham and the eponymous ancestor of the Cushites, and the region is mentioned by the prophets and poets.

As a given name in English it has been rare and occasional since the early modern period, sometimes appearing in Puritan and later revivalist naming. Variants and related forms include Kush, Koosh (phonetic), Cushi (“Cushite”), and the poetic Cushan. Note that South Asian Kush/Kusha is etymologically separate despite the overlapping spelling.

⚙ Cush is an uncommon pick. There are only 29 recorded uses of it in our data, from 13 countries.