Entry № 802 · Greek origin

Aphrodite Aphrodite — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ af-ruh-DY-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Greek goddess of love and beauty"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "greek goddess of love and beauty".

Aphrodite is from the Greek Aphroditē — the goddess of love, beauty, and desire, born from sea foam (aphros). Botticelli's The Birth of Venus (c. The Venus de Milo (c. 130 BCE) — Hellenistic statue at the Louvre.

Greek goddess of love.

The name in its native script.

Ἀφροδίτη
Transliteration
Aphrodítē
Pronunciation
/ ˌæf.rəˈdaɪ.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aphrodite stands.

Aphrodite 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.

Aphrodites before her.

Real people

In fiction
Aphrodite
Greek goddess of love.

Names connected to Aphrodite.

The number behind Aphrodite.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aphrodite reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.