Entry № 8375 · Greek origin

Pythias Pythias — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PIE-thee-ahs /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Aristotle's beloved wife (Greek)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "aristotle's beloved wife (greek)".

Pythias (Πυθιάς) was the niece (or adopted daughter) of the philosopher Hermias of Atarneus — the beloved wife of Aristotle and mother of his daughter (also named Pythias).

Featured in Diogenes Laërtius's Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Aristotle's beloved wife. Buried together at his request.

The name in its native script.

Πυθιάς
Transliteration
Pythiás
Pronunciation
/ ˈpaɪ.θi.əs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pythias stands.

Pythias 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.

Pythiass before her.

Real people
Pythias of Assos
Aristotle's wife.
4th c. BCE
In fiction
Pythias
Featured in Diogenes Laërtius.
3rd c. CE

Names connected to Pythias.

The number behind Pythias.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pythias reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.