Entry № 4292 · Greek origin

Hipparchia Hipparchia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hi-PAR-kee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Cynic philosopher (Greek)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "cynic philosopher (greek)".

Hipparchia (Ἱππαρχία, c. 350-280 BCE) was the Greek Cynic philosopher of Maroneia — wife of Crates of Thebes. She rejected an aristocratic life to marry the wandering Cynic philosopher and lived openly with him in the agora, a radical act for her time.

Featured prominently in Diogenes Laërtius's Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Greek Cynic philosopher. Rejected aristocracy to live in the agora.

The name in its native script.

Ἱππαρχία
Transliteration
Hipparchía
Pronunciation
/ hɪˈpɑːr.ki.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hipparchia stands.

Hipparchia 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.

Hipparchias before her.

Real people
Hipparchia of Maroneia
Greek Cynic philosopher.
c. 350 – 280 BCE
In fiction
Hipparchia
Featured in Diogenes Laërtius.
3rd c. CE

Names connected to Hipparchia.

The number behind Hipparchia.

8

The Visionary

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