Entry № 2210 · Greek origin

Cyrene Cyrene — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sie-REE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Sovereign queen (Apollo's love)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "sovereign queen (apollo's love)".

Cyrene (Κυρήνη) is the Greek word for "sovereign queen." The Thessalian princess and huntress who, when seen wrestling a lion bare-handed by Apollo, was carried by him to Libya — where she founded the city of Cyrene and became its first queen.

Featured in Pindar's Pythian Ode 9 and Callimachus's Hymn to Apollo.

Sovereign queen. Wrestled lions; founded the city of Cyrene.

The name in its native script.

Κυρήνη
Transliteration
Kyrḗnē
Pronunciation
/ saɪˈriː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cyrene stands.

Cyrene 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.

Cyrenes before her.

Real people
Cyrene
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Cyrene
Apollo's love.
Pindar's Pythian Ode 9

Names connected to Cyrene.

The number behind Cyrene.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cyrene reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.