Entry № 5737 · Greek origin

Lampetia Lampetia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lam-PEH-tee-ah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Shining (Helios's daughter, kept his cattle)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient (Greek)

The meaning

A name that means "shining (helios's daughter, kept his cattle)".

Lampetia (Λαμπετίη) is from the Greek lampō (to shine).

Featured in Homer's Odyssey Book 12.

Shining (Helios's daughter, kept his cattle) — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Λαμπετίη

Transliteration: Lampetíē
Pronunciation: / læmˈpɛ.ti.ə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Lampetia stands.

Lampetia 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

Lampetias before her.

Real people

Lampetia

Greek mythological figure.

In fiction

Lampetia

Homer's Odyssey 12.

Names connected to Lampetia.

Numerology

The number behind Lampetia.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lampetia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.