Entry № 2205 · Greek origin

Cymothoe Cymothoe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sy-MOH-thoh-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Swift wave"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "swift wave".

Cymothoe was a Nereid whose name means swift wave — she calmed the waters for sailors in distress.

Musical and oceanic, it moves like the sea itself.

Swift wave — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Cymothoe
Transliteration
Cymothoe
Pronunciation
/ saɪˈmo.θo.e /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cymothoe stands.

Cymothoe 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.

Cymothoes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Cymothoe.

The number behind Cymothoe.

5

The Seeker

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