Entry № 4214 · Greek origin

Hemera Hemera — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ heh-MEH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Day (the primordial Greek goddess)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "day (the primordial greek goddess)".

Hemera (Ἡμέρα) is the Greek word for "day." The primordial Greek goddess of daylight — daughter of Erebus (darkness) and Nyx (night), sister of Aether (upper air).

Featured in Hesiod's Theogony.

Day. The primordial Greek goddess of daylight.

The name in its native script.

Ἡμέρα
Transliteration
Hēméra
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛ.mə.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hemera stands.

Hemera 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.

Hemeras before her.

Real people
Hemera
Greek primordial goddess.
In fiction
Hemera
Featured in Hesiod's Theogony.

Names connected to Hemera.

The number behind Hemera.

5

The Seeker

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