Entry № 878 · Greek origin

Arignote Arignote — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-rig-NOH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Famous knowledge (Pythagoras's other daughter)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "famous knowledge (pythagoras's other daughter)".

Arignote (Ἀριγνώτη) combines the Greek ari (best) and gnōtē (known) — "famous in knowledge." Arignote (6th c. BCE) was the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano — sister of Damo — and a Pythagorean philosopher in her own right, author of treatises on the mysteries of Dionysus (now lost).

Featured in Suidas's Lexicon.

Famous knowledge. Pythagoras's philosopher-daughter who wrote on Dionysian mysteries.

The name in its native script.

Ἀριγνώτη
Transliteration
Arignṓtē
Pronunciation
/ ˌær.ɪɡˈnoʊ.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arignote stands.

Arignote 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.

Arignotes before her.

Real people
Arignote
Pythagorean philosopher.
6th c. BCE
In fiction
Arignote
Featured in Suidas's Lexicon.

Names connected to Arignote.

The number behind Arignote.

8

The Visionary

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