Entry № 6810 · Greek origin

Mestra Mestra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MES-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Greek shape-shifting princess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "greek shape-shifting princess".

Mestra (Μήστρα) was the daughter of King Erysichthon — cursed by Demeter with insatiable hunger. She was given by Poseidon the power to shape-shift, and her father sold her over and over to buy food; each time she returned to him in a new form.

Featured in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 8.

Greek shape-shifting princess — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Μήστρα
Transliteration
Mḗstra
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛs.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mestra stands.

Mestra 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.

Mestras before her.

Real people
Mestra
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Mestra
Greek shape-shifter.
Ovid's Metamorphoses 8

Names connected to Mestra.

The number behind Mestra.

4

The Builder

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