Entry № 5808 · Greek origin

Leda Leda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Mother of Helen of Troy (seduced by Zeus as a swan)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "mother of helen of troy (seduced by zeus as a swan)".

Leda (Λήδα) is from the Lycian lada (woman, wife). Spartan queen, mother of Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) — Zeus came to her in the form of a swan and she laid two eggs, from which the four children were born. Yeats's Leda and the Swan (1924) is among the most-anthologized poems of the 20th century.

Featured in Euripides's Helen and Apollodorus's Library.

Mother of Helen of Troy (seduced by Zeus as a swan) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Λήδα
Transliteration
Lḗda
Pronunciation
/ ˈliː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leda stands.

Leda 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.

Ledas before her.

Real people
Leda
Greek mythological queen.
In fiction
Leda
Subject of Yeats's Leda and the Swan.
1924

Names connected to Leda.

The number behind Leda.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leda reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.