Entry № 4301 · Greek origin

Hipparchia Hipparchia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hi-PAR-kee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Cynic philosopher (Greek)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "cynic philosopher (greek)".

Hipparchia (Ἱππαρχία, c. 350-280 BCE) was the Greek Cynic philosopher of Maroneia — wife of Crates of Thebes.

Cynic philosopher (Greek) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Ἱππαρχία
Transliteration
Hipparchía
Pronunciation
/ hɪˈpɑːr.ki.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hipparchia stands.

Hipparchia 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.

Hipparchias before her.

Real people
Hipparchia of Maroneia
Greek Cynic philosopher.
c. 350 – 280 BCE
In fiction
Hipparchia
Featured in Diogenes Laërtius.
3rd c. CE

Names connected to Hipparchia.

The number behind Hipparchia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hipparchia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.