Entry № 7809 · French origin

Ondine Ondine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Wave / water nymph (Giraudoux's Ondine; Colin Farrell film)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (French)

A name that means "wave / water nymph (giraudoux's ondine; colin farrell film)".

Ondine is from the Latin unda (wave) — the water nymph in alchemical and Romantic literary tradition. A modern revival name in the vintage-French aesthetic. Undine (1816) — E.T.A. Hoffmann's opera based on Fouqué. Ondine Sherwood — modern British figure.

Wave / water nymph.

The name in its native script.

Ondine
Transliteration
Ondine
Pronunciation
/ ɒnˈdiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ondine stands.

Ondine 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.

Ondines before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ondine
Giraudoux's play (Hepburn's Tony 1954).
1939
Undine
Fouqué's novella.
1811

Names connected to Ondine.

The number behind Ondine.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ondine reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.