Entry № 1009 · Greek origin

Astraea Astraea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-STRAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Star maiden (Greek goddess of justice; constellation Virgo)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "star maiden (greek goddess of justice; constellation virgo)".

Astraea (Ἀστραία) is from the Greek astron (star). The Greek goddess of innocence and justice — the last of the immortals to live among humans during the Golden Age. As humanity's wickedness increased through the Silver, Bronze, and Iron ages, all the other gods abandoned the earth — Astraea was the last to leave, ascending to the heavens to become the constellation Virgo, holding the scales of justice (the adjacent constellation Libra). In Renaissance England, Queen Elizabeth I was hailed as Astraea returned — Edmund Spenser invoked her in The Faerie Queene.

Featured in Hesiod's Works and Days and Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Star maiden. Last immortal among humans; ascended to become the constellation Virgo.

The name in its native script.

Ἀστραία
Transliteration
Astraía
Pronunciation
/ əˈstreɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Astraea stands.

Astraea 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.

Astraeas before her.

Real people
Astraea
Greek goddess of justice.
In fiction
Astraea
Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
1590

Names connected to Astraea.

The number behind Astraea.

2

The Peacemaker

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