Entry № 947 · Greek origin

Asclepigenia Asclepigenia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-sklee-pee-jeh-NEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Born of Asclepius (Neoplatonist)"
Syllables
6
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "born of asclepius (neoplatonist)".

Asclepigenia (Ἀσκληπιγένεια) combines the name of Asclepius (healer-god) with the Greek gen (born). Asclepigenia (5th c. CE) was the Athenian Neoplatonist philosopher, daughter of Plutarch of Athens — she taught the philosopher-emperor Proclus the rites of theurgy and is one of the last named female philosophers of antiquity.

Featured in Marinus's Life of Proclus.

Born of the healer. Taught the philosopher-emperor Proclus.

The name in its native script.

Ἀσκληπιγένεια
Transliteration
Asklēpigéneia
Pronunciation
/ ˌæs.kli.pɪ.dʒɪˈniː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Asclepigenia stands.

Asclepigenia 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.

Asclepigenias before her.

Real people
Asclepigenia
Athenian Neoplatonist.
5th c. CE
In fiction
Asclepigenia
Featured in Marinus's Life of Proclus.

Names connected to Asclepigenia.

The number behind Asclepigenia.

2

The Peacemaker

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