Entry № 4607 · Greek origin

Iphigenia Iphigenia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ if-ih-jeh-NIE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Strong-born"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "strong-born".

Iphigenia is rare as a given name but a subject of Euripides, Goethe, and Gluck's opera.

Strong-born. Agamemnon's tragic daughter.

The name in its native script.

Ἰφιγένεια
Transliteration
Iphigéneia
Pronunciation
/ ˌɪf.ɪ.dʒəˈnaɪ.ə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Iphigenia stands.

Iphigenia 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.

Iphigenias before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Iphigenia
Daughter of Agamemnon in Greek tragedy.
Euripides, 5th c. BCE

Names connected to Iphigenia.

The number behind Iphigenia.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iphigenia reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.