Entry № 4241 · Greek origin

Hesperia Hesperia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hes-PEH-ree-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Evening star (Greek)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "evening star (greek)".

Hesperia (Ἑσπερία) is the Greek word for "evening" — the realm of the Hesperides, the nymph daughters of the evening who tended Hera's golden apples in the far west.

Hesperia is the ancient Greek and Roman name for Italy and Spain — "the land of the evening."

Evening star. The Greek western nymph.

The name in its native script.

Ἑσπερία
Transliteration
Hespería
Pronunciation
/ hɛsˈpɛr.i.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hesperia stands.

Hesperia 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.

Hesperias before her.

Real people
Hesperia
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Hesperia
Nymph of the Hesperides.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Hesperia.

The number behind Hesperia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hesperia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.