Entry № 7678 · Greek origin

Nyssa Nyssa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NIH-sah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Saint Gregory of Nyssa (Cappadocian Father)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient (Greek)

The meaning

A name that means "saint gregory of nyssa (cappadocian father)".

Nyssa is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek Orthodox + Eastern Christian heritage.

Saint Gregory of Nyssa (Greek).

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Νύσσα

Transliteration: Nyssa
Pronunciation: / ˈnɪs.ə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Nyssa stands.

Nyssa 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.

Namesakes

Nyssas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Gregory of Nyssa / Macrina the Younger

Cappadocian Father c. 335-395 + brother of Basil the Great + Council of Constantinople 381 CE + Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed + Trinitarian theology + Macrina the Younger sister + Eastern Christian monasticism.

c. 335 – 395 CE

Names connected to Nyssa.

Numerology

The number behind Nyssa.

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nyssa reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.