Entry № 1059 · Greek origin

Auge Auge — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Brightness (Telephus's mother)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "brightness (telephus's mother)".

Auge (Αὔγη) is the Greek word for "brightness" or "sunbeam." The princess of Tegea, priestess of Athena — mother of the hero Telephus by Heracles.

Featured in Euripides' lost play Auge.

Brightness (Telephus's mother) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Αὔγη
Transliteration
Aúgē
Pronunciation
/ ˈaʊ.ɡeɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Auge stands.

Auge 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.

Auges before her.

Real people
Auge
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Auge
Mother of Telephus by Heracles.
Euripides' lost Auge

Names connected to Auge.

The number behind Auge.

7

The Seeker

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