Entry № 1335 · Latin origin

Bellatrix Bellatrix — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEL-ah-triks /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Female warrior"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "female warrior".

Bellatrix comes from the Latin bellatrix, meaning "female warrior" — the feminine of bellator. The name is also that of the third-brightest star in the constellation Orion (the Amazon Star).

Bellatrix is rising as a girls' name despite its association with the Harry Potter villain Bellatrix Lestrange — parents drawn to the star and the warrior meaning.

Female warrior. The Amazon Star in Orion.

The name in its native script.

Bellatrix
Transliteration
Bellatrix
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛl.ə.trɪks /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bellatrix stands.

Bellatrix 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.

Bellatrixs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bellatrix Lestrange
Character in Harry Potter.
1997 onward

Names connected to Bellatrix.

The number behind Bellatrix.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bellatrix reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.