Entry № 8346 · Latin origin

Pulcheria Pulcheria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pul-KEH-ree-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Beautiful (Byzantine empress-saint)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "beautiful (byzantine empress-saint)".

Pulcheria is the Latin feminine from pulcher (beautiful). Saint Pulcheria (398-453 CE) was the Byzantine empress who effectively ruled the Eastern Roman Empire as regent for her brother Theodosius II — convened the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

Canonized for her contributions to orthodox Christianity.

Beautiful (Byzantine empress-saint) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Pulcheria
Transliteration
Pulcheria
Pronunciation
/ pʊlˈkɛr.i.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pulcheria stands.

Pulcheria 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.

Pulcherias before her.

Real people
Saint Pulcheria
Byzantine empress.
398 – 453
In fiction
Pulcheria
Character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
1866

Names connected to Pulcheria.

The number behind Pulcheria.

3

The Communicator

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