Entry № 10493 · Greek origin

Thalassa Thalassa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ thuh-LAS-uh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Sea (Greek primordial goddess + Neptune's moon)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "sea (greek primordial goddess + neptune's moon)".

Thalassa is from the Greek thálassa (sea) — also the name of the primordial Greek goddess of the Mediterranean Sea. Thalatta!" from Xenophon's Anabasis (c. Thalassa Hutchins — modern American figure.

Sea (Greek primordial goddess + Neptune's moon) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Θάλασσα
Transliteration
Thálassa
Pronunciation
/ θəˈlæs.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Thalassa stands.

Thalassa 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.

Thalassas before her.

Real people
Thalassa Cruso
PBS Making Things Grow TV gardener.
1908 – 1997
In fiction
Thalassa
Greek sea goddess + Neptune moon.

Names connected to Thalassa.

The number behind Thalassa.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Thalassa reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.