Entry № 10227 · Greek origin

Symphorosa Symphorosa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sim-foh-ROH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Bearing together (Roman widow with 7 martyred sons)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "bearing together (roman widow with 7 martyred sons)".

Saint Symphorosa (d. c. 138) was the Roman widow of Tibur — she and her seven sons were all martyred together under Emperor Hadrian, the New Testament Maccabees parallel.

Her relics are at the Capitoline.

Bearing together (Roman widow with 7 martyred sons) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Symphorosa
Transliteration
Symphorosa
Pronunciation
/ ˌsɪm.fəˈroʊ.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Symphorosa stands.

Symphorosa 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.

Symphorosas before her.

Real people
Saint Symphorosa
Roman widow martyr.
d. c. 138
In fiction
Symphorosa
Common in early Christian hagiography.

Names connected to Symphorosa.

The number behind Symphorosa.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Symphorosa reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.