Entry № 4302 · Greek origin

Hippodamia Hippodamia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hip-poh-dah-MEE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Horse-tamer (Pelops's wife)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "horse-tamer (pelops's wife)".

Hippodamia is a name of Greek origin, meaning horse-tamer (pelops's wife).

Horse-tamer (Pelops's wife) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Ἱπποδάμεια
Transliteration
Hippodámeia
Pronunciation
/ ˌhɪ.poʊ.dəˈmiː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hippodamia stands.

Hippodamia 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.

Hippodamias before her.

Real people
Hippodamia
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Hippodamia
Pelops's wife.
Pindar's Olympian Ode 1

Names connected to Hippodamia.

The number behind Hippodamia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hippodamia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.