Entry № 779 · Greek origin

Anyte Anyte — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-nee-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Arcadian epigrammatist (Greek)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "arcadian epigrammatist (greek)".

Anyte of Tegea (Ἀνύτη, early 3rd c. BCE) was the Greek lyric poet of Arcadia — pioneer of the pastoral epigram, the first poet to write epitaphs for animals (a dolphin, a horse, a cricket, a grasshopper). Counted among the Nine Lyric Poetesses.

Her epigrams survive in the Greek Anthology.

Greek poet who pioneered pastoral epigrams and epitaphs for animals.

The name in its native script.

Ἀνύτη
Transliteration
Anýtē
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.nɪ.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anyte stands.

Anyte 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.

Anytes before her.

Real people
Anyte of Tegea
Greek pastoral poet.
early 3rd c. BCE
In fiction
Anyte
Counted among the Nine Lyric Poetesses.

Names connected to Anyte.

The number behind Anyte.

2

The Peacemaker

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