Entry № 928 · Greek origin

Artemisia Artemisia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ar-teh-MEE-zee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Italian Baroque painter (Gentileschi)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Medieval (Greek)

A name that means "italian baroque painter (gentileschi)".

Artemisia is from the Greek goddess Artemis. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1656) was the most important female Baroque painter — best known for her dramatic Judith Slaying Holofernes (c.

Subject of Mary Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi (1989).

Italian Baroque painter (Gentileschi) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Artemisia
Transliteration
Artemisia
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑːr.təˈmiː.zi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Artemisia stands.

Artemisia 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.

Artemisias before her.

Real people
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian Baroque painter.
1593 – c. 1656
Artemisia I of Caria
Persian War naval commander.
5th c. BCE
In fiction
Artemisia
Subject of Artemisia film.
1997

Names connected to Artemisia.

The number behind Artemisia.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Artemisia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.