Entry № 11555 · English origin

Wisdom Wisdom — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WIZ-dum /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Knowledge (modern American virtue word-name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "knowledge (modern american virtue word-name)".

Wisdom is from the Old English wīsdōm — knowledge, learning, sound judgment. Saint Sophia of Rome — early Christian martyr; the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Istanbul, built 537 CE, is one of the most-architecturally-significant buildings in human history.

Knowledge (modern American virtue word-name) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Wisdom
Transliteration
Wisdom
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɪz.dəm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wisdom stands.

Wisdom 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.

Wisdoms before her.

Real people
Wisdom Kaye
American TikTok fashion influencer.
born 2001
In fiction
Wisdom
Biblical personification of Sophia.

Names connected to Wisdom.

The number behind Wisdom.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wisdom reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.