Entry № 10445 · Greek origin

Telesto Telesto — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ teh-LES-toh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"An ocean nymph"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "an ocean nymph".

Telesto was an Oceanid, one of the nymph-daughters of the sea-titan Oceanus, her name linked to success and fulfilment.

An ocean nymph — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Telesto
Transliteration
Telesto
Pronunciation
/ teˈles.to /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Telesto stands.

Telesto 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.

Telestos before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Telesto.

The number behind Telesto.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Telesto reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.