Entry № 2763 · Latin origin

Egeria Egeria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-JEER-ee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"A water nymph and wise counselor"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "a water nymph and wise counselor".

Egeria was a Roman water nymph and prophetess who, in legend, counselled the wise king Numa.

Her name has come to mean a trusted woman adviser — clever and calm.

A water nymph and wise counselor — a name from Latin myth.

The name in its native script.

Egeria
Transliteration
Egeria
Pronunciation
/ eˈdʒiː.ɾi.a /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Egeria stands.

Egeria 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.

Egerias before her.

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In fiction

Names connected to Egeria.

The number behind Egeria.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Egeria reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.