Entry № 4704 · Greek origin

Ismene Ismene — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ iss-MEH-neh /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Sophocles's Antigone sister (Theban play)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient (Greek)

The meaning

A name that means "sophocles's antigone sister (theban play)".

Ismene is from the Greek Ἰσμήνη (Isménē — knowledgeable, wise). Ismene is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek tragic heritage. Greek feminine name reflecting Greek tragic heritage.

Sophocles's Antigone sister (Greek).

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ἰσμήνη

Transliteration: Isménē
Pronunciation: / ɪsˈmɛ.nɛ /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Ismene stands.

Ismene 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

Ismenes before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Ismene

Theban princess + daughter of Oedipus + Jocasta + sister of Antigone + Sophocles's Antigone ~441 BCE + Oedipus at Colonus + Seven Against Thebes + civil disobedience debate.

Greek tragedy

Names connected to Ismene.

Numerology

The number behind Ismene.

The Peacemaker

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