Entry № 2725 · Greek origin

Echo Echo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Greek nymph who fell in love with Narcissus"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "greek nymph who fell in love with narcissus".

Echo (Ἠχώ) is the Greek word for "sound" or "reverberation." The Oread nymph cursed by Hera to repeat only the last words spoken to her — punishment for distracting Hera with chatter while Zeus consorted with other nymphs. She fell in unrequited love with the beautiful Narcissus, who rejected her; she pined away until only her voice remained. From her name the modern English word "echo."

Featured in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 3).

Reverberation. Cursed to repeat only the last words spoken; pined for Narcissus until only her voice remained.

The name in its native script.

Ἠχώ
Transliteration
Ēkhṓ
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛk.oʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Echo stands.

Echo 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.

Echos before her.

Real people
Echo
Greek nymph.
In fiction
Echo
Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Names connected to Echo.

The number behind Echo.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Echo reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.