Entry № 1733 · Latin origin

Calpurnia Calpurnia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kal-PUR-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"From the Calpurnius family"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "from the calpurnius family".

Calpurnia is a Roman family name — Calpurnia Pisonis (c. 75-14 BCE) was the third wife of Julius Caesar, who famously dreamed of his assassination the night before the Ides of March.

Calpurnia is rare but distinctive. Atticus Finch's housekeeper in To Kill a Mockingbird is named Calpurnia.

Caesar's wife. Atticus Finch's housekeeper.

The name in its native script.

Calpurnia
Transliteration
Calpurnia
Pronunciation
/ kælˈpɜːr.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Calpurnia stands.

Calpurnia 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.

Calpurnias before her.

Real people
Calpurnia Pisonis
Wife of Julius Caesar.
c. 75 – 14 BCE
In fiction
Calpurnia
Housekeeper in To Kill a Mockingbird.
1960 novel
Calpurnia
Caesar's wife in Shakespeare's play.
c. 1599

Names connected to Calpurnia.

The number behind Calpurnia.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Calpurnia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.