Names Categorized "mother goddesses"

Aditi is a feminine name of Sanskrit origin, meaning "boundless, entire" or "freedom, security". It is derived from the negative prefix अ (a) and दिति (diti) meaning "giving", thus literally "not bound" or "limitless". E...

Amaterasu (also known as Amaterasu Ōmikami) is the Japanese sun goddess, one of the central kami of the Shinto pantheon. Her name combines the Japanese elements ama (天) meaning "heaven, sky" and terasu (照) meaning "shi...

Arianrhod is a prominent figure in Welsh mythology, best known from the Mabinogi. Her name probably means "silver wheel", derived from arian ("silver") and rhod ("wheel") in Welsh. The a linking segment may be a feminine...

Asherah is the name of a major goddess in ancient Semitic religions, particularly among the Northwest Semitic cultures. The name is thought to derive from Semitic roots meaning "she who walks in the sea", reflecting her...

Bast is a variant reading of Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of cats, fertility, and the sun. The name is an anglicized form derived from the Egyptian bꜣstt, possibly meaning "ointment jar" combined with a feminine suffix....

Bastet is an ancient Egyptian goddess of cats, fertility, and the sun, whose name derives from the Egyptian bꜣstt, possibly linked to bꜣs meaning "ointment jar" with a feminine t suffix. In Egyptian mythology, Bastet was...

Bau is the name of a Sumerian mother goddess, whose precise etymology remains uncertain. She was primarily associated with healing, midwifery, and fertility, and her cult was centered in the city of Lagash in ancient Mes...

Bébinn (pronounced Bay-vin or Bay-bin) is an Old Irish feminine name derived from the elements bé ("woman") and finn ("white, blessed, fair"), thus meaning "white woman" or "fair lady." Variant spellings are numerous: Bé...

Bevin is an Irish name that originated as an Anglicized form of Bébinn. The root name Bébinn derives from Old Irish elements bé meaning "woman" and finn meaning "white, blessed," together signifying "white woman." This e...

Chimalma (Nahuatl: Chīmalmā) is an Aztec goddess whose name means "shield hand", derived from chīmalli "shield" and māitl "hand." She is best known as the mother of the important Mesoamerican deities Quetzalcoatl and Xol...

Coatlicue (Classical Nahuatl: cōātl īcue, pronounced [koː(w)aːˈt͡ɬiːkʷeː]) is the Aztec goddess known from the mythology of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Her name means "snake skirt" in Nahuatl, derived from cōātl "snake" a...

Cybele is an Anatolian mother goddess, whose name may derive from Phrygian roots meaning either "stone" or "hair." She was primarily worshipped in Phrygia as the "Mountain Mother," associated with fertility, nature, and...

Dalia is a feminine Lithuanian given name rooted in the Baltic mythological tradition. It derives from the Lithuanian word dalis meaning "portion, share", reflecting the name's deep connection to fate and destiny. In Lit...

Danu is a hypothetical Irish mother goddess, though her name is primarily known from the phrase Tuatha Dé Danann, meaning "people of the goddess Danu" — a supernatural race that supposedly inhabited Ireland before the Mi...

Demeter is the Greek goddess of agriculture, grain, and the harvest. Her name is typically interpreted as meaning "earth mother," derived from the Greek elements da (earth) and meter (mother). As one of the twelve Olympi...

Devi is a feminine given name derived from Sanskrit devī, meaning "goddess." The name originates from the Sanskrit root div, meaning "to shine" or "heavenly," and is the feminine counterpart of Deva, meaning "god." In in...

Dôn is an ancestor figure in Welsh mythology, traditionally regarded as the mother or father of a prominent group of supernatural beings known as the "Children of Dôn." The name's meaning is uncertain, but it has been li...

Eileithyia is the Greek form of Ilithyia, derived from the Ancient Greek Eiλείθυια, meaning "the readycomer." In Greek mythology, she was the goddess of childbirth and midwifery, a role that made her both revered and inv...

Ériu is a feminine name of Irish origin, derived from the name of a goddess in Irish mythology. According to legend, Ériu was one of the three eponymous goddesses of Ireland, daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha...

Frigg is a prominent goddess in Norse mythology, associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance, and motherhood. Her name means "beloved", from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō, derived from the root *frijōną meaning "to love"....

Gaia, also spelled Gaea, is a feminine given name of Greek and Italian usage. It derives from the Greek word γαῖα (gaia), a poetic parallel form of γῆ (ge), both meaning "earth". In Greek mythology, Gaia is the primordia...

Hathor is the Greek form of the Egyptian goddess name ḥwt-ḥrw, reconstructed as Hut-Heru, meaning "the house of Horus". The name combines Egyptian ḥwt "house" with the falcon-headed sky god Horus. Hathor was one of the m...

Haumea is a feminine name of Polynesian origin, primarily from Hawaiian mythology and culture. It means "red ruler" or "ruler of the red (earth)", derived from Hawaiian hau meaning "ruler" and mea meaning "reddish brown"...

Ḫepat (also romanized as Ḫebat) was a goddess associated with Aleppo, originally worshiped in northern Syria in the third millennium BCE. Her name is often presumed to be a feminine nisba referring to her connection to t...

Hera is the Greek goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the queen of the twelve Olympians in Greek mythology. She is the sister and wife of Zeus, the king of the gods, and the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea...

Hut-Heru is the reconstructed Egyptian form of the name Hathor, derived from Egyptian ḥwt-ḥrw meaning "the house of Horus." It combines ḥwt ("house, enclosure") with ḥrw (the god Horus). In Egyptian mythology, Hut-Heru (...

Ilithyia is an alternative transliteration of Eileithyia, the Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery. The name comes from the Ancient Greek Εἰλείθυια, which is derived from εἰλήθυια meaning "the readycomer". Etymology...

Inanna is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and war, whose name is possibly derived from the Sumerian nin-an-a(k), meaning "lady of the heavens" – from nin ("lady") and the genitive form of an ("heaven, sk...

Ishtar is the Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian goddess of love, war, and fertility, whose name derives from the Semitic root ʿṯtr, possibly related to the Evening Star. In the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon, Ishtar was...

Isis is the Greek form of the Egyptian name ꜣst (reconstructed as Iset, Aset, or Ueset), which may derive from the root st meaning "throne." In mythology, Isis was a prominent goddess of the sky and nature in ancient Egy...

Izanami (イザナミ) is a principal creator goddess in Japanese mythology, formally honored as Izanami-no-Mikoto. Her name likely means "female who invites" in Japanese, derived from the element izana, meaning "invite, lur...

Ki is the Sumerian word for "earth", and the name of the primordial Sumerian goddess of the earth itself. As one of the oldest attested deities in the Mesopotamian pantheon, Ki was revered as the embodiment of the fertil...

Laima is a Baltic goddess of fate, luck, pregnancy, and childbirth, whose name originates from the Latvian word laime and Lithuanian laimė, both meaning 'luck' or 'fate'. She is a central figure in Baltic mythology, asso...

Lakshmi (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मी, IAST: Lakṣmī), also known as Shri, is a principal goddess in Hinduism, revered as the goddess of prosperity, good luck, beauty, fortune, wealth, fertility, and abundance. Her name derives from...

Latona is the Latin form of ⟨a href="/name/leto" class="nl">Leto⟨/a⟩. In Roman mythology, she was the goddess of childhood, motherhood, and modesty, often identified with her Greek counterpart Leto. The name is derived f...

Laxmi is a common transcription of the Sanskrit-derived name Lakshmi, used in Nepali, Hindi, Marathi, and Telugu. It is an alternate spelling of Telugu లక్ష్మి (Lakṣmi) or Marathi/Hindi लक्ष्मी (Lakṣmī), and is the most...

Leto is a name of Greek origin, borne in Greek mythology by a Titaness who was the mother of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis by Zeus. Her name may derive from the Lycian word lada meaning "wife", or alternatively from t...

Lucina is a feminine given name with roots in Roman mythology, derived from Latin. The name originally comes from lucus meaning "grove," but was later reinterpreted as being associated with lux meaning "light." This sema...

Mahadevi (Sanskrit: महादेवी) is a Sanskrit epithet for the supreme goddess in Hinduism, literally meaning "great goddess" — from mahā (great) and devī (goddess). In Hindu tradition, especially within the goddess-centric...

Maia is a Roman goddess of spring, a companion (and sometimes wife) of Vulcan, the god of fire. Her name probably derives from Latin maior meaning "greater". She was later conflated with the Greek goddess Maia, one of th...

Etymology Māra is a Latvian feminine name with deep roots in Baltic mythology. In pre-Christian Latvian tradition, Māra was the highest-ranking goddess, associated with dawn, fertility, and all feminine duties. Her name...

EtymologyMari 3 is a Basque feminine name with proposed origins in the Basque words emari meaning "donation" or amari meaning "mother" in Basque. This connection to concepts of giving and motherhood aligns with its mytho...

Matrona is a name of Celtic origin, meaning "great mother," derived from the Celtic root *mātīr ('mother') combined with the divine or augmentative suffix -on. This name belongs to a Gaulish and Brythonic mother goddess,...

Mnemosyne is the Greek Titan goddess of memory, from whose name the concept of memory itself is derived. The name Mnemosyne means "remembrance," stemming from the Greek word mnēmē, which translates to "memory" or "rememb...

Mokosh is a Slavic goddess whose name derives from the Old Slavic root mok meaning "wet, moist." She was associated with weaving, women, water, and fertility. No narratives about this deity have survived; references to M...

Mumba is a feminine Marathi name from the Hindu tradition, derived from the Sanskrit elements महा (mahā) meaning "great" and अंबा (ambā) meaning "mother", thus signifying "great mother". It serves as a Marathi epithet fo...

Mumbi is a central figure in Kikuyu mythology, regarded as the matriarch and mother of the Gĩkũyũ people. Her name means "she who shapes" in Kikuyu, reflecting her role as the molder of her people. Etymology The name Mum...

Mut is an Egyptian name derived from the word mwt, meaning "mother." In ancient Egyptian mythology, Mut was a primordial mother goddess, associated with the waters of Nu from which creation emerged. She was often said to...

EtymologyNingal is a Sumerian name meaning "great lady" or "great queen". It is composed of the nin ("lady") and gal ("big, great") elements. In cuneiform, the name was written as dNIN.GAL.MythologyNingal was a goddess o...

Ninhursag is the Sumerian mother goddess of the mountains, whose name means "lady of the (sacred) mountain" from the Sumerian elements nin ("lady") and hursaĝ ("mountain" or sacred mountain mountain). She was one of the...

Ninlil is a name of Sumerian origin, derived from the elements nin meaning "lady" and lil meaning "wind." In Sumerian mythology, she was a major goddess worshipped from the late 3rd millennium BCE onward. As the consort...

Nut is the Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose name derives from the Egyptian word nwt meaning "sky." She was a central figure in ancient Egyptian mythology, serving as the personification of the heavens. Often depicted a...