Entry № 3510 · Greek origin

Galateia Galateia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ gah-lah-TAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Milk-white (Polyphemus's beloved)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "milk-white (polyphemus's beloved)".

Galateia (Γαλάτεια) is the Greek word from gala (milk) — "milk-white." A Nereid sea-nymph loved by the Cyclops Polyphemus — she fell in love instead with the shepherd Acis, whom Polyphemus crushed with a boulder in jealousy. Distinct from the Pygmalion-Galatea.

Milk-white. The Nereid loved by Polyphemus.

The name in its native script.

Γαλάτεια
Transliteration
Galáteia
Pronunciation
/ ˌɡæ.ləˈteɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Galateia stands.

Galateia 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.

Galateias before her.

Real people
Galateia
Greek Nereid.
In fiction
Galateia
Heroine of Handel's Acis and Galatea.
1718 opera

Names connected to Galateia.

The number behind Galateia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Galateia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.