Entry № 8341 · Greek origin

Pyrene Pyrene — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pie-REE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Fire (Pyrenees mountains namesake)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "fire (pyrenees mountains namesake)".

Pyrene (Πυρήνη) is from the Greek pyr (fire). The princess of Bebryces, beloved by Heracles, who died alone in the great mountain range — the Pyrenees mountains are named after her. Heracles raised stone cairns over her body that became the peaks.

Featured in Silius Italicus's Punica.

Fire. The princess for whom the Pyrenees are named.

The name in its native script.

Πυρήνη
Transliteration
Pyrḗnē
Pronunciation
/ paɪˈriː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pyrene stands.

Pyrene 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.

Pyrenes before her.

Real people
Pyrene
Greek mythological princess.
In fiction
Pyrene
Pyrenees namesake.
Silius Italicus's Punica

Names connected to Pyrene.

The number behind Pyrene.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pyrene reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.