Entry № 11401 · Latin origin

Volumnia Volumnia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ voh-LUM-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Coriolanus's wife (Latin)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "coriolanus's wife (latin)".

Volumnia is from the Latin volumen (roll, volume). Volumnia (5th c. BCE) was the wife of Coriolanus — featured alongside his mother in the embassy that saved Rome.

Coriolanus's wife (Latin) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Volumnia
Transliteration
Volumnia
Pronunciation
/ vəˈlʌm.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Volumnia stands.

Volumnia 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.

Volumnias before her.

Real people
Volumnia
Coriolanus's wife.
5th c. BCE
In fiction
Volumnia
Mother in Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
1608

Names connected to Volumnia.

The number behind Volumnia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Volumnia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.