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
Grammatical form

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

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.