Entry № 4412 · Greek origin

Ianthe Ianthe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eye-AN-thee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Violet flower; a Greek nymph"

Syllables

First recorded

Antiquity

The meaning

A name that means "violet flower; a greek nymph".

Ianthe means violet flower, from ion (violet) and anthos (flower); she was a sea-nymph of Greek myth.

Delicate and floral, it is one of the prettiest of the classical nymph names.

Violet flower; a Greek nymph — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ianthe

Transliteration: Ianthe
Pronunciation: / aɪˈan.θe /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Ianthe stands.

Ianthe 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.

Namesakes

Ianthes before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Ianthe.

Numerology

The number behind Ianthe.

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ianthe reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.