Entry № 6354 · Syrian origin

Mamaea Mamaea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-MIE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Syrian
Meaning
"Severus Alexander's powerful mother"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "severus alexander's powerful mother".

Mamaea (Julia Avita Mamaea, c. 180-235) was the Syrian-Roman empress — niece of Septimius Severus, mother of Emperor Severus Alexander, whom she ruled through for thirteen years. Killed beside her son when their soldiers mutinied.

Featured in Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall.

Severus Alexander's powerful mother — a Syrian name.

The name in its native script.

Mamaea
Transliteration
Mamaea
Pronunciation
/ məˈmaɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mamaea stands.

Mamaea 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.

Mamaeas before her.

Real people
Julia Avita Mamaea
Mother of Severus Alexander.
c. 180 – 235
In fiction
Mamaea
Featured in Gibbon's Decline and Fall.

Names connected to Mamaea.

The number behind Mamaea.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mamaea reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.