'analcime-rich' is a descriptive English compound formed from the mineral name 'analcime' + the English adjective-forming element '-rich' (meaning 'abundant in'). 'Analcime' itself entered scientific English via New Latin/French as 'analcime', ultimately from modern Greek-derived mineral nomenclature.

'Analcime' was adopted into mineralogical vocabulary in New Latin and French in the 18th–19th centuries; in modern English it combined with native suffixes such as '-rich' to form compounds like 'analcime-rich'.

Originally 'analcime' referred specifically to the mineral; over time the compound 'analcime-rich' came to be used adjectivally to describe rocks or materials having a high content of that mineral.