Entry № 3048 · Greek origin

Erinna Erinna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-RIN-nah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Greek lyric poet of Telos"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient (Greek)

The meaning

A name that means "greek lyric poet of telos".

Erinna (Ἤριννα, 4th c. BCE) was the Greek lyric poet from the Aegean island of Telos — author of the famous lost epic The Distaff (Ἠλακάτη), 300 lines on the death of her childhood friend Baucis.

Allegedly died at nineteen.

Greek lyric poet who, dying at nineteen, was ranked with Sappho.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ἤριννα

Transliteration: Ḗrinna
Pronunciation: / əˈrɪn.ə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Erinna stands.

Erinna 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.

Namesakes

Erinnas before her.

Real people

Erinna of Telos

Greek lyric poet.

4th c. BCE

In fiction

Erinna

Counted among the Nine Lyric Poetesses.

Names connected to Erinna.

Numerology

The number behind Erinna.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Erinna reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.