Entry № 4152 · Greek origin

Hedyle Hedyle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-dee-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Sweet song (Greek epic poet)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "sweet song (greek epic poet)".

Hedyle (Ἡδύλη) is from the Greek hēdys (sweet). Hedyle (3rd c. BCE) was the Greek epic poet of Athens — author of the lost epyllion Scylla on the sea-monster's transformation. Mother of the epigrammatist Hedylus, daughter of the iambic poet Moschine.

Three generations of Greek poets, mother to son.

Sweet song. The Athenian epic poet of three generations.

The name in its native script.

Ἡδύλη
Transliteration
Hēdýlē
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛ.dɪ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hedyle stands.

Hedyle 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.

Hedyles before her.

Real people
Hedyle
Greek epic poet.
3rd c. BCE
In fiction
Hedyle
Counted among the Greek poetesses.

Names connected to Hedyle.

The number behind Hedyle.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hedyle reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.