Entry № 1009 · Greek origin

Asteria Asteria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-STEH-ree-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Starry (Greek Titaness, mother of Hekate)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "starry (greek titaness, mother of hekate)".

Asteria (Ἀστερία) is the Greek word for "starry" or "of the stars." A Greek Titaness, daughter of Coeus and Phoebe — sister of Leto and mother of Hekate by Perses.

Used widely in modern Greece.

Starry. Mother of Hekate, sister of Leto.

The name in its native script.

Ἀστερία
Transliteration
Astería
Pronunciation
/ əˈstɛr.i.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Asteria stands.

Asteria 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.

Asterias before her.

Real people
Asteria
Greek Titaness.
In fiction
Asteria
Mother of Hekate.
Hesiod's Theogony

Names connected to Asteria.

The number behind Asteria.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Asteria reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.