Entry № 3716 · Greek origin

Glykia Glykia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Sweet, gentle"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "sweet, gentle".

Glykia is a name of Greek origin, meaning sweet and gentle.

Sweet, gentle — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Glykia
Transliteration
Glykia
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Glykia stands.

Glykia 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.

Glykias before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Glykia.

The number behind Glykia.

2

The Peacemaker

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