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This section includes first names of Akkadian origin. With their origins in ancient Mesopotamia, these Middle Eastern names have survived 5000 years of history.
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Browse Akkadian male and female names by alphabetical order to find out the meanings of the names. Click on the first letter of the name you're looking for.
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Akkadian (or Assyro-Babylonian) was an East Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, the area around the Tigris and Euphrates river basins in the Middle East, including much of modern-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Turkey.
Akkadian names were first recorded in Sumerian texts around 2800 BC. The Code of Hammurabi, one of the oldest legal codes in the world, and the Epic of Gilgamesh were both written in Akkadian.
Although Akkadian has no living language descendants, some Akkadian words and personal names are still used today in Neo-Aramaic dialects, which are spoken by a quarter million ethnic Assyrians now living around the world. Its living relatives include Arabic and Hebrew and are spoken by nearly 300 million people.
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