Cushi as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Cushi

What is the meaning of the name Cushi ?

The baby name Cushi is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈkuːʃi/ (KOO-shee).

Cushi is Hebrew in Origin.

Cushi is a Biblical Hebrew given name from כוּשִׁי (Kushi), a demonym meaning “Cushite,” formed from Cush (כּוּשׁ), the ancient region south of Egypt often associated with Nubia/Ethiopia. As a name it conveys “man of Cush,” “from Cush,” or, more broadly, “Ethiopian.”

It appears in the Hebrew Bible both as a personal name and a descriptive title: Zephaniah is introduced as “son of Cushi” (Zephaniah 1:1), and the messenger who brings King David news of Absalom is called “the Cushite” (2 Samuel 18:21–32). Jewish historical usage is rare; the term functioned chiefly as an ethnonym rather than a common given name. Variants include Cushi (traditional English Bible spelling) and Kushi (modern transliteration); related are Cush/Kush, the eponymous ancestor and place. Note that in modern Israeli Hebrew the common noun kushi for a Black person is considered offensive, so the name may carry cultural sensitivity today.

⚙ Cushi is a rare name. It doesn't appear in any of the major national birth registries we track; we found only 16 recorded uses across 7 countries. Expect very few children to share this name.