Erato (Ἐρατώ) comes from the Greek root erōs, meaning "love" or "desire." She is the muse of lyric and love poetry — one of the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
Erato is rare as a girls' name but rising — chosen by literary families.
Erato 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Erato reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.