Entry № 1007 · Phoenician origin

Astarte Astarte — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-STAR-tay /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Phoenician
Meaning
"Phoenician goddess of love + war (precursor of Aphrodite)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Phoenician)

A name that means "phoenician goddess of love + war (precursor of aphrodite)".

Astarte is from the Phoenician ʿAštart — the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and war. Princess Astarte — modern revival naming.

Phoenician goddess of love + war (precursor of Aphrodite) — a Phoenician name.

The name in its native script.

𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕
Transliteration
ʿAštart
Pronunciation
/ əˈstɑːr.teɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Astarte stands.

Astarte 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.

Astartes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Astarte
Phoenician love + war goddess.

Names connected to Astarte.

The number behind Astarte.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Astarte reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.