Entry № 10383 · Greek origin

Tarsicia Tarsicia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tar-SEE-thee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Of Tarsus (Spanish hermit-saint)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "of tarsus (spanish hermit-saint)".

Tarsicia is the feminine of Tarsicius — "of Tarsus." Saint Tarsicia of Rodes (7th c.) was the Visigothic-Spanish princess (granddaughter of King Wamba) who fled the court to live as a hermit in the Galician forests — patron saint of Asturias and Galicia.

Distinct from the male Roman martyr Saint Tarsicius.

Of Tarsus. The Visigothic princess turned forest hermit.

The name in its native script.

Tarsicia
Transliteration
Tarsicia
Pronunciation
/ tɑːrˈsiː.θi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarsicia stands.

Tarsicia 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.

Tarsicias before her.

Real people
Saint Tarsicia
Visigothic hermit-saint.
7th c.
In fiction
Tarsicia
Patron saint of Asturias.

Names connected to Tarsicia.

The number behind Tarsicia.

8

The Visionary

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