Entry № 8215 · Latin origin

Pomponia Pomponia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pom-POH-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Of the gens Pomponia"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "of the gens pomponia".

Pomponia is the feminine of Pomponius — a major plebeian Roman gens. Pomponia (1st c. BCE) was Cicero's sister-in-law (wife of his brother Quintus) and a tempestuous letter-writer.

Pomponia Graecina (1st c. CE) was a Roman noblewoman possibly an early Christian convert.

Cicero's sister-in-law. The Roman gens.

The name in its native script.

Pomponia
Transliteration
Pomponia
Pronunciation
/ pɒmˈpoʊ.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pomponia stands.

Pomponia 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.

Pomponias before her.

Real people
Pomponia
Cicero's sister-in-law.
1st c. BCE
Pomponia Graecina
Possible early Christian Roman noble.
1st c. CE
In fiction
Pomponia
Roman matron in Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis.
1895 novel

Names connected to Pomponia.

The number behind Pomponia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pomponia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.