Entry № 2506 · Phoenician origin

Dido Dido — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DIE-doh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Phoenician
Meaning
"Wanderer; Carthaginian queen"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Phoenician)

A name that means "wanderer; carthaginian queen".

Dido is the legendary founder and first queen of Carthage — a Phoenician princess who fled Tyre.

The Carthaginian queen of the Aeneid.

The name in its native script.

Dido
Transliteration
Dido
Pronunciation
/ ˈdaɪ.doʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dido stands.

Dido 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.

Didos before her.

Real people
Dido
English singer.
born 1971
In fiction
Dido
Queen of Carthage in the Aeneid.
Virgil, 1st c. BCE
Dido
Heroine of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
1689 opera

Names connected to Dido.

The number behind Dido.

5

The Seeker

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