Entry № 4411 · Greek origin

Iantha Iantha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-AN-thah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Violet flower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "violet flower".

Iantha (also Ianthe) combines the Greek ion (violet) and anthos (flower) — meaning "violet flower." Ianthe was an Oceanid in Greek mythology and a beloved of Iphis.

Iantha is rare as a given name but distinctive.

Violet flower. The Greek Oceanid.

The name in its native script.

Ἰάνθη
Transliteration
Iánthē
Pronunciation
/ iˈæn.θə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iantha stands.

Iantha 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.

Ianthas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ianthe
Greek mythological Oceanid.
Greek mythology
Ianthe
Heroine of Shelley's poem To Ianthe.
1810 poem

Names connected to Iantha.

The number behind Iantha.

8

The Visionary

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