Entry № 8184 · Latin origin

Placidia Placidia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ plah-SI-dee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Calm (5th c. Roman empress)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "calm (5th c. roman empress)".

Placidia is the Latin feminine from placidus (calm, gentle). Galla Placidia (388-450 CE) was the half-sister of Emperor Honorius — captured by Visigoths and married their king Athaulf, later returning to rule the Western Roman Empire as regent for her son Valentinian III.

Calm (5th c. Roman empress) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Placidia
Transliteration
Placidia
Pronunciation
/ pləˈsɪ.di.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Placidia stands.

Placidia 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.

Placidias before her.

Real people
Galla Placidia
Roman empress.
388 – 450
In fiction
Placidia
Common in Roman historical fiction.

Names connected to Placidia.

The number behind Placidia.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Placidia reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.