Entry № 7909 · Greek origin

Pamphile Pamphile — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAM-fih-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"All-loving (Greek historian)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "all-loving (greek historian)".

Pamphile (Παμφίλη) combines the Greek pan (all) and philē (loving) — "all-loving." Pamphile of Epidaurus (1st c. CE) was the Greek historian who wrote a 33-book Historical Notes — one of the earliest known female historians in the Western tradition.

Featured in Diogenes Laërtius and Suidas.

All-loving. The Greek historian who wrote 33 books of Notes.

The name in its native script.

Παμφίλη
Transliteration
Pamphílē
Pronunciation
/ ˈpæm.fɪ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

What Pamphile is built from.

Pamphile is a compound name. Its parts are philía — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

philía
Greek
“love”

Where Pamphile stands.

Pamphile 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.

Pamphiles before her.

Real people
Pamphile of Epidaurus
Greek historian.
1st c. CE
In fiction
Pamphile
Featured in Suidas.
10th c. CE

Names connected to Pamphile.

The number behind Pamphile.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pamphile reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.