Entry № 8297 · Italian origin

Properzia Properzia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ proh-PERT-see-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Renaissance sculptor (first female sculptor in Vasari)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "renaissance sculptor (first female sculptor in vasari)".

Properzia is from the Roman family name Propertius. Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490-1530) was the Italian Renaissance sculptor — *the first female sculptor known to history and the only woman among the artists profiled in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550). Famous for her remarkable miniature sculptures carved on apricot and peach pits including a Crucifixion with 22 figures. Her marble panel of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is at the Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna.*

Subject of the 2014 Bologna exhibition Properzia de' Rossi: The First Woman Sculptor.

First female sculptor in history. Carved 22-figure Crucifixions on peach pits.

The name in its native script.

Properzia
Transliteration
Properzia
Pronunciation
/ proʊˈpɛrt.si.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Properzia stands.

Properzia 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.

Properzias before her.

Real people
Properzia de' Rossi
Italian Renaissance sculptor.
c. 1490 – 1530
In fiction
Properzia
Vasari's Lives.
1550

Names connected to Properzia.

The number behind Properzia.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Properzia reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.