Entry № 3153 · Greek origin

Eurydice Eurydice — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoo-RID-ih-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Wide justice"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "wide justice".

Eurydice (Εὐρυδίκη) combines the Greek eurys (wide) and dike (justice) — meaning "wide-ruling justice." In Greek myth, Eurydice is the wife of Orpheus whom he tried to bring back from the underworld.

Eurydice is rare as a given name but powerful — the subject of Sarah Ruhl's 2003 play and Anaïs Mitchell's musical Hadestown.

Orpheus's beloved. The looked-back-upon.

The name in its native script.

Εὐρυδίκη
Transliteration
Eurydíkē
Pronunciation
/ jʊˈrɪd.ɪ.si /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Eurydice stands.

Eurydice 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.

Eurydices before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Eurydice
Wife of Orpheus.
Greek mythology
Eurydice
Heroine of Hadestown.
2016 musical

Names connected to Eurydice.

The number behind Eurydice.

9

The Giver

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