Entry № 2281 · Greek origin

Damo Damo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-moh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Pythagoras's daughter (Pythagorean philosopher)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "pythagoras's daughter (pythagorean philosopher)".

Damo (Δαμώ) is the Greek mythological short form. Damo (6th c. BCE) was the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano — entrusted with his secret writings, she refused to sell them despite living in poverty in obedience to her father's wishes. A model of Pythagorean fidelity.

Featured in Diogenes Laërtius's Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Pythagoras's daughter (Pythagorean philosopher) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Δαμώ
Transliteration
Damṓ
Pronunciation
/ ˈdæ.moʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Damo stands.

Damo 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.

Damos before her.

Real people
Damo
Pythagoras's daughter, philosopher.
6th c. BCE
In fiction
Damo
Featured in Diogenes Laërtius.

Names connected to Damo.

The number behind Damo.

6

The Nurturer

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