Entry № 10484 · Greek origin

Tethys Tethys — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEH-thiss /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Greek titan of the sea"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient (Greek)

The meaning

A name that means "greek titan of the sea".

Tethys (Τηθύς) is the Greek Titaness of fresh water and the sea — sister-wife of Oceanus, mother of all rivers and the three thousand Oceanids.

Saturn's moon Tethys is named for her.

Greek titan of the sea — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Τηθύς

Transliteration: Tēthýs
Pronunciation: / ˈtɛ.θɪs /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Tethys stands.

Tethys 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.

Namesakes

Tethyss before her.

Real people

Tethys

Greek Titaness.

In fiction

Tethys

Mother of the Oceanids.

Hesiod's Theogony

Names connected to Tethys.

Numerology

The number behind Tethys.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tethys reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.