Entry № 8398 · Iberian origin

Quiteria Quiteria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kee-TEH-ree-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Iberian
Meaning
"Iberian saint of nine sister-virgins"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Iberian)

A name that means "iberian saint of nine sister-virgins".

Quiteria is the Iberian-Latin name from quietus (quiet, peaceful). Saint Quiteria (2nd c.) was one of nine sister-virgins miraculously born at once to a Galician noblewoman who hid them to avoid scandal — they later became Christian martyrs.

Co-patron saint of Galicia and the Basque Country.

The Iberian saint of nine sister-virgins.

The name in its native script.

Quiteria
Transliteration
Quiteria
Pronunciation
/ kiːˈtɛr.i.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Quiteria stands.

Quiteria 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.

Quiterias before her.

Real people
Saint Quiteria
Iberian Christian martyr.
2nd c.
In fiction
Quiteria
Galician folk legend.

Names connected to Quiteria.

The number behind Quiteria.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Quiteria reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.