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Aglaya Aglaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-GLAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Splendor / radiance (Russian-Greek + Dostoyevsky's The Idiot)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "splendor / radiance (russian-greek + dostoyevsky's the idiot)".

Aglaya is from the Russian Аглая (Aglaya) — Russian rendition of Greek Ἀγλαΐα (Aglaia — splendor, brightness, beauty). Aglaya is one of the Russian feminine names — central to traditional Russian Orthodox + classical Greek heritage.

Splendor / radiance (Russian-Greek).

The name in its native script.

Аглая
Transliteration
Aglaya
Pronunciation
/ əˈɡlɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aglaya stands.

Aglaya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aglayas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Aglaya Yepanchina
Central character in Dostoyevsky's The Idiot 1869 + youngest Yepanchin sister + love interest of Prince Myshkin.
The Idiot

Names connected to Aglaya.

The number behind Aglaya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aglaya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.