Entry № 6685 · Greek origin

Megara Megara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ meh-GAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Heracles's first wife"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "heracles's first wife".

Megara (Μεγάρα) was the Theban princess and first wife of Heracles — daughter of King Creon. In Greek tragedy, her tragic fate at Heracles's hands is one of his most haunting episodes.

Heracles's first wife. The Theban princess.

The name in its native script.

Μεγάρα
Transliteration
Megára
Pronunciation
/ məˈɡɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Megara stands.

Megara 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.

Megaras before her.

Real people
Megara
Theban princess.
In fiction
Megara
Heracles's first wife.
Euripides' Heracles
Meg
Disney's Hercules (1997).
Disney

Names connected to Megara.

The number behind Megara.

9

The Giver

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