Entry № 7809 · French origin

Ondine Ondine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Wave / water nymph (Giraudoux's Ondine; Colin Farrell film)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (French)

A name that means "wave / water nymph (giraudoux's ondine; colin farrell film)".

Ondine is from the Latin unda (wave) — the water nymph in alchemical and Romantic literary tradition. A modern revival name in the vintage-French aesthetic. Undine (1816) — E.T.A. Hoffmann's opera based on Fouqué. Ondine Sherwood — modern British figure.

Wave / water nymph.

The name in its native script.

Ondine
Transliteration
Ondine
Pronunciation
/ ɒnˈdiːn /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Ondine stands.

Ondine 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.

Ondines before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Ondine
Giraudoux's play (Hepburn's Tony 1954).
1939
Undine
Fouqué's novella.
1811

Names connected to Ondine.

The number behind Ondine.

7

The Seeker

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