Entry № 5131 · Greek origin

Kalanthe Kalanthe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"A beautiful flower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a beautiful flower".

Kalanthe is a name of Greek origin, meaning a beautiful flower.

A beautiful flower — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Kalanthe
Transliteration
Kalanthe
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Kalanthe is built from.

Kalanthe is a compound name. Its parts are kalós + ánthos — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

kalós
Greek
“beautiful”
ánthos
Greek
“flower”

Where Kalanthe stands.

Kalanthe 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.

Kalanthes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Kalanthe.

The number behind Kalanthe.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kalanthe reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.