Entry № 8214 · Latin origin

Pompeia Pompeia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pom-PAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Caesar's second wife ('above suspicion')"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "caesar's second wife ('above suspicion')".

Pompeia is the Latin feminine of Pompey. Pompeia (c. 86-after 35 BCE) was the granddaughter of Sulla and second wife of Julius Caesar — divorced by him after the Bona Dea scandal, even though she was innocent.

Featured in Roman historical narratives.

Caesar's second wife ('above suspicion') — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Pompeia
Transliteration
Pompeia
Pronunciation
/ pɒmˈpeɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pompeia stands.

Pompeia 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.

Pompeias before her.

Real people
Pompeia
Caesar's second wife.
c. 86 – after 35 BCE
In fiction
Pompeia
Common in Roman historical fiction.

Names connected to Pompeia.

The number behind Pompeia.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pompeia reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.