Entry № 9377 · Latin origin

Sempronia Sempronia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sem-PROH-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Roman matron of the Catiline conspiracy"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "roman matron of the catiline conspiracy".

Sempronia is the Latin feminine of Sempronius. Sempronia (1st c. BCE) was the educated Roman noblewoman of the Catiline conspiracy — described by Sallust as a woman of education, wit, and ill repute who had "learning beyond a Roman matron." Sister of the Gracchi.

Featured prominently in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae.

Roman matron of the Catiline conspiracy — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Sempronia
Transliteration
Sempronia
Pronunciation
/ sɛmˈproʊ.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sempronia stands.

Sempronia 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.

Sempronias before her.

Real people
Sempronia
Catiline conspirator.
1st c. BCE
In fiction
Sempronia
Featured in Sallust.
Bellum Catilinae

Names connected to Sempronia.

The number behind Sempronia.

2

The Peacemaker

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