Entry № 5723 · 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
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

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

Lampetia (Λαμπετίη) is from the Greek lampō (to shine). One of the Heliades, daughters of Helios the Sun — with her sister Phaethusa, she kept Helios's sacred cattle on the island of Thrinacia. When Odysseus's crew slaughtered the cattle, she reported the crime to her father, who demanded their destruction.

Featured in Homer's Odyssey Book 12.

Shining. Helios's daughter who kept his sacred cattle on Thrinacia.

The name in its native script.

Λαμπετίη
Transliteration
Lampetíē
Pronunciation
/ læmˈpɛ.ti.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

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.

Lampetias before her.

Real people
Lampetia
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Lampetia
Homer's Odyssey 12.

Names connected to Lampetia.

The number behind Lampetia.

5

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.