Entry № 1027 · Greek origin

Atalanta Atalanta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ at-ah-LAN-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Equal in weight, balanced"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "equal in weight, balanced".

Atalanta (Ἀταλάντη) comes from the Greek atalantos, meaning "equal in weight" or "balanced." In Greek mythology, Atalanta is the hunter and athlete who would only marry a man who could outrun her in a footrace — and she could outrun any of them, until Hippomenes used golden apples to distract her.

Atalanta is rare as a girls' name today but has the dignity of a mythological athlete.

Equal in weight, balanced — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Ἀταλάντη
Transliteration
Atalántē
Pronunciation
/ ˌæt.əˈlæn.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Atalanta stands.

Atalanta 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.

Atalantas before her.

Real people
Atalanta B.C.
Italian football club, founded 1907 (the name).
In fiction
Atalanta
Mythological huntress of Greek tradition.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Atalanta.

The number behind Atalanta.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Atalanta reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.