Entry № 7788 · Greek origin

Olympias Olympias — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-LIM-pee-ahs /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Of Mount Olympus (Alexander the Great's mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "of mount olympus (alexander the great's mother)".

Olympias (Ὀλυμπιάς, c. 375-316 BCE) was the Epirote princess and mother of Alexander the Great — fourth wife of Philip II of Macedon. Famously fierce, she claimed descent from Achilles and was rumored to consort with snakes during religious rites.

Of Mount Olympus (Alexander the Great's mother) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Ὀλυμπιάς
Transliteration
Olympiás
Pronunciation
/ oʊˈlɪm.pi.əs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Olympias stands.

Olympias 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.

Olympiass before her.

Real people
Olympias
Mother of Alexander the Great.
c. 375 – 316 BCE
In fiction
Olympias
Heroine of historical fiction.

Names connected to Olympias.

The number behind Olympias.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Olympias reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.