Entry № 802 · Greek origin

Aphrodite Aphrodite — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ af-ruh-DY-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Greek goddess of love and beauty"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "greek goddess of love and beauty".

Aphrodite is from the Greek Aphroditē — the goddess of love, beauty, and desire, born from sea foam (aphros). Botticelli's The Birth of Venus (c. The Venus de Milo (c. 130 BCE) — Hellenistic statue at the Louvre.

Greek goddess of love.

The name in its native script.

Ἀφροδίτη
Transliteration
Aphrodítē
Pronunciation
/ ˌæf.rəˈdaɪ.ti /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Aphrodite stands.

Aphrodite 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.

Aphrodites before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Aphrodite
Greek goddess of love.

Names connected to Aphrodite.

The number behind Aphrodite.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aphrodite reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.