Entry № 10016 · Greek origin

Sterope Sterope — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ STEH-roh-pee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Lightning (one of the Pleiades)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "lightning (one of the pleiades)".

Sterope (Στερόπη) is the Greek word for "lightning" or "flash." One of the seven Pleiades — daughters of Atlas and Pleione — who became the famous star cluster.

Used widely in modern Greece.

Lightning. One of the seven Pleiades.

The name in its native script.

Στερόπη
Transliteration
Sterópē
Pronunciation
/ ˈstɛr.oʊ.pi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sterope stands.

Sterope 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.

Steropes before her.

Real people
Sterope
Greek Pleiad.
In fiction
Sterope
One of the seven Pleiades.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Sterope.

The number behind Sterope.

8

The Visionary

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