Entry № 1043 · Persian origin

Atossa Atossa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-TOH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Achaemenid empress (mother of Xerxes)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "achaemenid empress (mother of xerxes)".

Atossa (c. 550-475 BCE) was the Achaemenid Persian empress — daughter of Cyrus the Great, sister and wife of Cambyses II, wife of Darius the Great, mother of Xerxes I. The most powerful woman of the Persian Empire at its height, she was Darius's chief political adviser. The world's earliest documented case of breast cancer is recorded as occurring to Atossa, treated by the Greek physician Democedes.

Featured in Aeschylus's The Persians.

Achaemenid empress (mother of Xerxes) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

𐎠𐎬𐎢𐏃𐎰
Transliteration
Atūsā
Pronunciation
/ əˈtoʊ.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Atossa stands.

Atossa 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.

Atossas before her.

Real people
Atossa
Persian Achaemenid empress.
c. 550 – 475 BCE
In fiction
Atossa
Aeschylus's The Persians.
472 BCE

Names connected to Atossa.

The number behind Atossa.

3

The Communicator

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