Entry № 3038 · Greek origin

Erigone Erigone — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-RIG-oh-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Child of strife (constellation Virgo)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "child of strife (constellation virgo)".

Erigone (Ἠριγόνη) is the Athenian girl who, finding her father Icarius murdered, hanged herself from a tree in grief. She was placed in the sky as the constellation Virgo, and her dog Maera as Sirius — the Dog Star.

Featured in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hyginus's astronomical mythology.

Child of strife. The Athenian who became Virgo.

The name in its native script.

Ἠριγόνη
Transliteration
Ērigónē
Pronunciation
/ əˈrɪɡ.oʊ.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Erigone stands.

Erigone 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.

Erigones before her.

Real people
Erigone
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Erigone
The constellation Virgo.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Erigone.

The number behind Erigone.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Erigone reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.