Entry № 397 · Greek origin

Alcyone Alcyone — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ al-SY-oh-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Kingfisher; a star of the Pleiades"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "kingfisher; a star of the pleiades".

Alcyone was the brightest of the Pleiades and, in another tale, was turned into a kingfisher — the source of the calm halcyon days.

Kingfisher; a star of the Pleiades — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Alcyone
Transliteration
Alcyone
Pronunciation
/ alˈsaɪ.o.ne /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alcyone stands.

Alcyone 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.

Alcyones before her.

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Names connected to Alcyone.

The number behind Alcyone.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alcyone reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.