Entry № 9934 · Greek origin

Sosipatra Sosipatra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-see-PAH-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Saving father (Neoplatonist mystic)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "saving father (neoplatonist mystic)".

Sosipatra of Ephesus (4th c. CE) was the Neoplatonist philosopher-mystic of Pergamum — a major figure of late Hellenic philosophy who taught alongside Aedesius, with prophetic powers ascribed to her by Eunapius.

Featured in Eunapius's Lives of the Sophists.

Saving father. The Neoplatonist mystic of Pergamum.

The name in its native script.

Σωσιπάτρα
Transliteration
Sōsipátra
Pronunciation
/ ˌsoʊ.sɪˈpɑː.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sosipatra stands.

Sosipatra 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.

Sosipatras before her.

Real people
Sosipatra of Ephesus
Neoplatonist philosopher.
4th c. CE
In fiction
Sosipatra
Featured in Eunapius.
Lives of the Sophists

Names connected to Sosipatra.

The number behind Sosipatra.

1

The Leader

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