Entry № 739 · Greek origin

Antiope Antiope — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ an-TY-oh-pee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Greek Amazon queen (Theseus's wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "greek amazon queen (theseus's wife)".

Antiope (Ἀντιόπη) means "confronting, facing." Amazon queen, sister of Hippolyta — depending on tradition, Theseus either abducted her on his journey with Heracles to obtain Hippolyta's belt, or she fell in love with him willingly. She bore Theseus a son, Hippolytus, and died defending Athens against the invading Amazons who came to reclaim her. *Subject of Aeschylus's lost play Amazons and central figure of the Centauromachy frieze on the Parthenon's metopes. Wonder Woman's mother in DC Comics is named for her* — played by Robin Wright in the 2017 film.

Featured in Plutarch's Life of Theseus.

Confronting. Amazon queen; died defending Athens against invading Amazons.

The name in its native script.

Ἀντιόπη
Transliteration
Antiópē
Pronunciation
/ ænˈtaɪ.oʊ.piː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Antiope stands.

Antiope 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.

Antiopes before her.

Real people
Antiope
Amazon queen.
In fiction
Antiope
Wonder Woman.
2017 film

Names connected to Antiope.

The number behind Antiope.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Antiope reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.