Entry № 4174 · Greek origin

Hekuba Hekuba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-koo-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Queen of Troy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "queen of troy".

Hekuba (Ἑκάβη) was the great Queen of Troy — wife of King Priam and mother of nineteen children including Hector, Paris, Cassandra, and Polyxena.

Queen of Troy. The embodiment of grieving motherhood.

The name in its native script.

Ἑκάβη
Transliteration
Hekábē
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛ.kuː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hekuba stands.

Hekuba 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.

Hekubas before her.

Real people
Hekuba
Queen of Troy.
In fiction
Hekuba
Heroine of Euripides' Hecuba.
424 BCE play

Names connected to Hekuba.

The number behind Hekuba.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hekuba reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.