Entry № 2288 · Greek origin

Danae Danae — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-nah-eh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Mother of Perseus (impregnated by Zeus as golden rain)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "mother of perseus (impregnated by zeus as golden rain)".

Danae (Δανάη) is from the Greek danos (parched, dry).

Featured in Apollodorus's Library and Pindar's Pythian odes.

Mother of Perseus.

The name in its native script.

Δανάη
Transliteration
Danáē
Pronunciation
/ ˈdeɪ.neɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Danae stands.

Danae 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.

Danaes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Danae
Subject of Klimt's Danaë.
1907

Names connected to Danae.

The number behind Danae.

7

The Seeker

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