Entry № 1003 · Greek origin

Asterope Asterope — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ as-TEH-roh-pee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Of the stars; a Pleiad"

Syllables

First recorded

Antiquity

The meaning

A name that means "of the stars; a pleiad".

Asterope was one of the Pleiades, the seven starry sisters; her name means starry-faced or lightning.

Sparkling and high, it belongs to the constellation itself.

Of the stars; a Pleiad — a name from Greek myth.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Asterope

Transliteration: Asterope
Pronunciation: / asˈte.ɾo.pe /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Asterope stands.

Asterope 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.

Namesakes

Asteropes before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Asterope.

Numerology

The number behind Asterope.

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Asterope reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.