Entry № 737 · Greek origin

Antikleia Antikleia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ an-tee-KLAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Odysseus's mother"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "odysseus's mother".

Antikleia (Ἀντίκλεια) combines the Greek anti (against) and kleos (fame). The mother of Odysseus — wife of Laertes. She died of grief during her son's twenty-year absence at Troy and on his wanderings home, and he met her shade in the Underworld.

Featured in Homer's Odyssey Book 11.

Odysseus's mother who died of grief during his wanderings.

The name in its native script.

Ἀντίκλεια
Transliteration
Antíkleia
Pronunciation
/ ˌæn.tɪˈkleɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Antikleia stands.

Antikleia 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.

Antikleias before her.

Real people
Antikleia
Greek literary figure.
In fiction
Antikleia
Odysseus's mother.
Homer's Odyssey 11

Names connected to Antikleia.

The number behind Antikleia.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Antikleia reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.