Entry № 4244 · Greek origin

Hestia Hestia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HES-tee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Hearth, fireside"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "hearth, fireside".

Hestia (Ἑστία) is the Greek goddess of the hearth, home, and family. The name comes from the Greek word for "hearth" — the sacred fire at the center of every Greek home.

Hestia is rare as a girl's name but rising. She was one of the original twelve Olympians, though she gave up her seat to Dionysus to preserve peace among the gods.

Hearth. The sacred fire of the home.

The name in its native script.

Ἑστία
Transliteration
Hestía
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛs.ti.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hestia stands.

Hestia 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.

Hestias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hestia
Greek goddess of hearth and home.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Hestia.

The number behind Hestia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hestia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.