Entry № 2071 · Greek origin

Circe Circe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Hawk, sorceress of the Odyssey"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "hawk, sorceress of the odyssey".

Circe (Κίρκη) is the Greek sorceress of the Odyssey — daughter of the sun god Helios, who turned Odysseus's men into pigs on her island Aeaea. Her name derives from kirkos, meaning "hawk."

The Greek sorceress. Madeline Miller's novel.

The name in its native script.

Κίρκη
Transliteration
Kírkē
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɜːr.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Circe stands.

Circe 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.

Circes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Circe
Sorceress of the Odyssey.
Homer, c. 8th c. BCE
Circe
Heroine of Madeline Miller's novel.
2018 novel

Names connected to Circe.

The number behind Circe.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Circe reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.