Entry № 2109 · Greek origin

Cleopatra Cleopatra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ klee-oh-PAH-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Glory of the father"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "glory of the father".

Cleopatra (Κλεοπάτρα) combines the Greek kleos (glory) and pater (father) — meaning "glory of the father." Cleopatra VII (69-30 BCE), the last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, was the most famous bearer.

Cleopatra is rare as a given name but iconic. Cleopatra Jones (1973) was the title of the Blaxploitation film.

Glory of the father — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Κλεοπάτρα
Transliteration
Kleopátra
Pronunciation
/ ˌkliː.əˈpɑː.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cleopatra stands.

Cleopatra 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.

Cleopatras before her.

Real people
Cleopatra VII
Last pharaoh of Egypt.
69 – 30 BCE
In fiction
Cleopatra
Heroine of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
c. 1606 play

Names connected to Cleopatra.

The number behind Cleopatra.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cleopatra reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.