The names listed here occur in the mythologies of the Near East. That is, the mythologies of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Phoenicians and others. See also Egyptian mythology names.

ADAD   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Akkadian cognate of HADAD

AHRIMAN   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of ANGRA MAINYU

AHURA MAZDA   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "lord of wisdom" in Avestan... [more]

AMERETAT   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "immortality" in Avestan... [more]

AMORDAD   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of AMERETAT

AMURDAD   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Middle Persian form of AMERETAT

AN (2)   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "heaven, sky" in Sumerian. An was the Sumerian god of the heavens.

ANAHITA   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "immaculate, undefiled" from Avestan a "not" and ahit "unclean"... [more]

ANAITIS   f   Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized)
Greek form of ANAHITA

ANAT (1)   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Possibly derived from a Semitic root meaning "water spring"... [more]

ANATH (2)   f   Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized)
From Αναθ (Anath), the Greek form of ANAT (1)

ANATU   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Form of ANAT (1)

ANGRA MAINYU   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "evil spirit" in Avestan... [more]

ANU (2)   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Babylonian form of AN (2)

ASHERAH   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Perhaps derived from Semitic roots meaning "she who walks in the sea"... [more]

ASHTAD   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "justice" in Persian... [more]

'ASHTORET   f   Biblical Hebrew, Near Eastern Mythology
Hebrew form of ASHTORETH

ASHTORETH   f   Biblical, Near Eastern Mythology
From עַשְׁתֹרֶת ('Ashtoret), the Hebrew form of the name of a Phoenician goddess of love, war and fertility... [more]

ASTARTE   f   Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized), Biblical Greek
Greek form of ASHTORETH

BA'AL   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Derived from Semitic ba'al meaning "lord" or "possessor"... [more]

BAAL   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Variant spelling of BA'AL

BAHMAN   m   Iranian, Near Eastern Mythology
Possibly means "good mind" in Persian... [more]

CYBELE   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Meaning unknown... [more]

DAGAN   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Variant of DAGON

DAGON   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Derived from Ugaritic dgn meaning "grain"... [more]

EA (1)   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Meaning unknown, perhaps from Sumerian meaning "house of water"... [more]

EL   m   Near Eastern Mythology
From a Semitic word meaning "god", perhaps originally derived from a root meaning "power"... [more]

ELLIL   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Babylonian form of ENLIL

ENKI   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Derived from Sumerian en-ki "lord of the earth" (though maybe originally from en-kur "lord of the underworld")... [more]

ENLIL   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Derived from Sumerian en-lil "lord of the wind"... [more]

ERESHKIGAL   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "lady of the great earth" in Sumerian... [more]

FARVARDIN   f & m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "guardian spirit" in Persian... [more]

GILGAMESH   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Meaning unknown... [more]

GOVAD   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "wind" in Persian... [more]

HADAD   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Possibly derived from a Semitic root meaning "thunder"... [more]

HAURVATAT   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "health, perfection, wholeness" in Avestan... [more]

HORMAZD   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Persian form of AHURA MAZDA

INANNA   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Possibly derived from Sumerian (n)in-an-na "lady of the sky"... [more]

ISHTAR   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Meaning unknown... [more]

KHORDAD   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of HAURVATAT... [more]

KHURSHID   m & f   Iranian, Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of Hvare Khshaeta meaning "shining sun" in Avestan... [more]

LILITH   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Derived from Akkadian lilitu meaning "of the night"... [more]

MARDUK   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Meaning unknown... [more]

MELQART   m   Near Eastern Mythology
From Phoenician mlk "king" and qrt "city"... [more]

MITHRA   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Possibly derived from an Indo-Iranian root *mitra meaning "oath, alliance, friend"... [more]

MITHRAS   m   Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized)
Greek form of MITHRA

MORDAD   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of AMORDAD... [more]

MOT   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "death" in Ugaritic... [more]

NANAEA   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Meaning unknown, but possibly means "undefiled" in Akkadian... [more]

NANAIA   f   Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized)
Greek form of NANAEA

NINA (2)   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Meaning unknown... [more]

ORMAZD   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of AHURA MAZDA

SAROSH   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "prayer" in Persian... [more]

SHAHRIVAR   m & f   Iranian, Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of Kshathra Vairya meaning "desirable power" in Avestan... [more]

TANIS   f   Near Eastern Mythology (Hellenized)
Greek form of TANITH

TANIT   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Variant of TANITH

TANITH   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Derived from Semitic roots meaning "serpent lady"... [more]

TIAMAT   f   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "sea" in Akkadian... [more]

YAM   m   Near Eastern Mythology
Means "sea" in Ugaritic... [more]