Entry № 11242 · Latin origin

Vesta Vesta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VES-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Hearth, sacred flame"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "hearth, sacred flame".

Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and family — counterpart of the Greek Hestia.

Vesta is rare as a given name but rising as the Roman names revival continues.

Hearth. The Roman goddess of the sacred flame.

The name in its native script.

Vesta
Transliteration
Vesta
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɛs.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vesta stands.

Vesta 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.

Vestas before her.

Real people
Vesta
Rare modern bearer.
In fiction
Vesta
Roman goddess of the hearth.
Roman mythology

Names connected to Vesta.

The number behind Vesta.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vesta reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.