Entry № 1335 · Latin origin

Bellatrix Bellatrix — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEL-ah-triks /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Female warrior"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "female warrior".

Bellatrix comes from the Latin bellatrix, meaning "female warrior" — the feminine of bellator. The name is also that of the third-brightest star in the constellation Orion (the Amazon Star).

Bellatrix is rising as a girls' name despite its association with the Harry Potter villain Bellatrix Lestrange — parents drawn to the star and the warrior meaning.

Female warrior. The Amazon Star in Orion.

The name in its native script.

Bellatrix
Transliteration
Bellatrix
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛl.ə.trɪks /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Bellatrix stands.

Bellatrix 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.

Bellatrixs before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Bellatrix Lestrange
Character in Harry Potter.
1997 onward

Names connected to Bellatrix.

The number behind Bellatrix.

4

The Builder

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