Entry № 6115 · Greek origin

Lysistrata Lysistrata — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lie-SIS-trah-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Army-disbander (Aristophanes' heroine)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "army-disbander (aristophanes' heroine)".

Lysistrata (Λυσιστράτη) combines the Greek lyō (to loosen, dismiss) and stratos (army) — "army-disbander." The heroine of Aristophanes' 411 BCE comedy who organizes the women of Athens and Sparta to withhold sex until their men end the Peloponnesian War.

One of the earliest peace-activist heroines in Western literature.

Army-disbander. The Aristophanes peace-activist.

The name in its native script.

Λυσιστράτη
Transliteration
Lysistrátē
Pronunciation
/ laɪˈsɪs.trə.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lysistrata stands.

Lysistrata 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.

Lysistratas before her.

Real people
Lysistrata
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Lysistrata
Heroine of Aristophanes' comedy.
411 BCE play

Names connected to Lysistrata.

The number behind Lysistrata.

9

The Giver

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