Entry № 4303 · Greek origin

Hippolyta Hippolyta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hih-POL-ih-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Releaser of horses"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "releaser of horses".

Hippolyta is rare but rising. She appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and as the mother of Wonder Woman in DC Comics.

Amazon queen. Wonder Woman's mother.

The name in its native script.

Ἱππολύτη
Transliteration
Hippolýtē
Pronunciation
/ hɪˈpɒl.ɪ.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hippolyta stands.

Hippolyta 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.

Hippolytas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hippolyta
Mother of Wonder Woman.
DC Comics, 1941 onward
Hippolyta
Character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
c. 1595 play

Names connected to Hippolyta.

The number behind Hippolyta.

5

The Seeker

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