Entry № 10524 · Greek origin

Themisto Themisto — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ thee-MIS-toh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Right-doing (Athamas's third wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "right-doing (athamas's third wife)".

Themisto (Θεμιστώ) is from the Greek themis (divine law, right) — "right-doing." The third wife of King Athamas of Boeotia, who in jealousy tried to kill her stepchildren but mistakenly killed her own — one of the most tragic figures of Greek myth.

Featured in Euripides' lost Ino.

Right-doing. The Boeotian queen of tragic jealousy.

The name in its native script.

Θεμιστώ
Transliteration
Themistṓ
Pronunciation
/ θəˈmɪs.toʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Themisto stands.

Themisto 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.

Themistos before her.

Real people
Themisto
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Themisto
Athamas's third wife.
Euripides' lost Ino

Names connected to Themisto.

The number behind Themisto.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Themisto reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.