Entry № 4303 · Greek origin

Hippolyta Hippolyta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hih-POL-ih-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Releaser of horses"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "releaser of horses".

Hippolyta is rare but rising. She appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and as the mother of Wonder Woman in DC Comics.

Amazon queen. Wonder Woman's mother.

The name in its native script.

Ἱππολύτη
Transliteration
Hippolýtē
Pronunciation
/ hɪˈpɒl.ɪ.tə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Hippolyta stands.

Hippolyta 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.

Hippolytas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Hippolyta
Mother of Wonder Woman.
DC Comics, 1941 onward
Hippolyta
Character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
c. 1595 play

Names connected to Hippolyta.

The number behind Hippolyta.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hippolyta reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.