Entry № 8190 · Greek origin

Pleione Pleione — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ply-OH-nee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"An ocean nymph, mother of the Pleiades"

Syllables

First recorded

Antiquity

The meaning

A name that means "an ocean nymph, mother of the pleiades".

Pleione was an Oceanid nymph and the mother of the Pleiades, the seven sisters set among the stars.

An ocean nymph, mother of the Pleiades — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Pleione

Transliteration: Pleione
Pronunciation: / plaɪˈo.ne /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Pleione stands.

Pleione 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

Pleiones before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Pleione.

Numerology

The number behind Pleione.

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pleione reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.