Entry № 8180 · Greek origin

Polyxo Polyxo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ poh-LIK-soh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Lemnian queen (commanded the women's massacre)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "lemnian queen (commanded the women's massacre)".

Polyxo (Πολυξώ) combines the Greek poly (much) and (smooth). Queen Polyxo of Lemnos was the prophetess who, in the Argonautic tradition, had counseled the Lemnian women in their notorious massacre of the male Lemnians — when the Argonauts later arrived, she advised the women to take them as fathers of new children, repopulating the island.

Featured in Apollonius's Argonautica and Statius's Thebaid.

Lemnian queen-prophetess. Advised the women on the Argonauts.

The name in its native script.

Πολυξώ
Transliteration
Polyxṓ
Pronunciation
/ pɒˈlɪk.soʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Polyxo stands.

Polyxo 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.

Polyxos before her.

Real people
Polyxo
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Polyxo
Apollonius's Argonautica.

Names connected to Polyxo.

The number behind Polyxo.

8

The Visionary

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