Entry № 10385 · Latin origin

Tarsilla Tarsilla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tar-SEEL-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Gregory the Great's aunt (vision of Christ at death)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "gregory the great's aunt (vision of christ at death)".

Tarsilla is the diminutive of Tarsia. Saint Tarsilla (d. c. 581) was the paternal aunt of Pope Gregory the Great who, on her deathbed, reported a vision of Christ welcoming her — recorded by Gregory himself in Dialogues Book IV.

Featured in Gregory the Great's writings.

Gregory the Great's aunt. Her dying vision of Christ is in his Dialogues.

The name in its native script.

Tarsilla
Transliteration
Tarsilla
Pronunciation
/ tɑːrˈsiːl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarsilla stands.

Tarsilla 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.

Tarsillas before her.

Real people
Saint Tarsilla
Gregory the Great's aunt.
d. c. 581
In fiction
Tarsilla
Featured in Gregory's Dialogues IV.

Names connected to Tarsilla.

The number behind Tarsilla.

2

The Peacemaker

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