Asenath is also the name of a character in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep."
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According to rabbanic literature, Asenath was really the daughter of Shechem and Dinah, and only the foster-daughter of Potiphar.
It is named after an early settler, Asenath Douglass, who was commonly called Senath and in whose family her Bible-derived name Asenath was pronounced with a long "e" and with stress on the second syllable.