Entry № 8174 · Greek origin

Polycaste Polycaste — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ poh-lee-KAS-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Nestor's daughter (bathed Telemachus)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "nestor's daughter (bathed telemachus)".

Polycaste (Πολυκάστη) combines the Greek poly (many) and kastos (skilled, learned). The youngest daughter of King Nestor of Pylos — in Homer's Odyssey Book 3, she anointed and bathed Telemachus when he visited Pylos seeking news of his father Odysseus.

Featured in Homer's Odyssey.

Nestor's daughter. Bathed Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey.

The name in its native script.

Πολυκάστη
Transliteration
Polykástē
Pronunciation
/ ˌpɒ.liˈkæs.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Polycaste stands.

Polycaste 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.

Polycastes before her.

Real people
Polycaste
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Polycaste
Nestor's youngest daughter.
Homer's Odyssey 3

Names connected to Polycaste.

The number behind Polycaste.

8

The Visionary

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