Entry № 11592 · Greek origin

Xanthippe Xanthippe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zan-THIP-pee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Yellow horse (Socrates's wife + Plato + Xenophon)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "yellow horse (socrates's wife + plato + xenophon)".

Xanthippe is from the Greek Xanthíppē (Ξανθίππη) — xanthos (yellow, blond) + hippos (horse) — yellow horse. Xanthippe (c. 5th-4th c. BCE) was the wife of Socrates and mother of his three sons (Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, Menexenus). Appears throughout Plato's Phaedo (where she attends Socrates's death scene) and Xenophon's Symposium and Memorabilia.

Yellow horse (Greek).

The name in its native script.

Ξανθίππη
Transliteration
Xanthíppē
Pronunciation
/ zænˈθɪp.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Xanthippe stands.

Xanthippe 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.

Xanthippes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Xanthippe
Socrates's wife in Plato + Xenophon.

Names connected to Xanthippe.

The number behind Xanthippe.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Xanthippe reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.