Entry № 7679 · Greek origin

Nyx Nyx — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NIKS /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Night"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "night".

Nyx (Νύξ) is the Greek goddess and personification of night — one of the primordial deities, mother of many gods including Hypnos (sleep), Thanatos (death), and Hemera (day).

Nyx is rare as a given name but rising — chosen for its mythological weight and modern sound.

Night. The Greek primordial goddess.

The name in its native script.

Νύξ
Transliteration
Nýx
Pronunciation
/ nɪks /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Nyx stands.

Nyx 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.

Nyxs before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Nyx
Greek primordial goddess of night.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Nyx.

The number behind Nyx.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nyx reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.