Entry № 2120 · Greek origin

Clytemnestra Clytemnestra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ klai-tem-NES-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Mycenaean queen"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "mycenaean queen".

Clytemnestra is from the Greek Klytaimnḗstra (Κλυταιμνήστρα — praiseworthy wooing). Clytemnestra in Greek mythology is the queen of Mycenae, wife of King Agamemnon, mother of Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes, and Chrysothemis, and sister of Helen of Troy + Castor + Pollux (the Dioscuri) — daughter of King Tyndareus of Sparta and Queen Leda. Also central to Sophocles's Electra and Euripides's Electra.

Praiseworthy wooing (Greek).

The name in its native script.

Κλυταιμνήστρα
Transliteration
Klytaimnḗstra
Pronunciation
/ ˌklaɪ.tɛmˈnɛs.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Clytemnestra stands.

Clytemnestra 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.

Clytemnestras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Clytemnestra (Greek)
Mycenaean queen + Agamemnon's wife.

Names connected to Clytemnestra.

The number behind Clytemnestra.

2

The Peacemaker

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