Entry № 9396 · Latin origin

Septima Septima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEP-tih-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Seventh (queen mother of civil rights)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "seventh (queen mother of civil rights)".

Septima is the Latin feminine of septimus ("seventh"). Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was the African-American educator known as the "Queen Mother" of the Civil Rights Movement.

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor.

Queen Mother of Civil Rights.

The name in its native script.

Septima
Transliteration
Septima
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɛp.tɪ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Septima stands.

Septima 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.

Septimas before her.

Real people
Septima Poinsette Clark
Civil rights educator.
1898 – 1987
In fiction
Septima
Subject of civil rights documentaries.

Names connected to Septima.

The number behind Septima.

2

The Peacemaker

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