Entry № 4606 · Greek origin

Iphigeneia Iphigeneia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ if-ee-jeh-NAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Strong-born (Agamemnon's daughter Euripides)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "strong-born (agamemnon's daughter euripides)".

Iphigeneia is from the Greek Ἰφιγένεια (Iphigeneia — strong-born, born to strength) — from Greek iphios (strong) + genos (birth). Iphigeneia is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek tragedy heritage. Greek feminine name reflecting Greek tragic heritage.

Strong-born (Agamemnon's daughter Euripides) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Ἰφιγένεια
Transliteration
Iphigeneia
Pronunciation
/ ɪ.fɪ.dʒɛˈnaɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iphigeneia stands.

Iphigeneia 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.

Iphigeneias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Iphigenia
Mycenaean princess + daughter of Agamemnon + sacrifice at Aulis to Artemis + Aeschylus's Agamemnon + Euripides's Iphigenia in Aulis + Iphigenia in Tauris + Goethe + Gluck.
Greek tragedy

Names connected to Iphigeneia.

The number behind Iphigeneia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iphigeneia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.