Entry № 8134 · Greek origin

Phintys Phintys — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FIN-tis /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Pythagorean philosopher (on women's virtue)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "pythagorean philosopher (on women's virtue)".

Phintys (Φιντύς, 4th c. BCE) was the Pythagorean philosopher, daughter of Callicrates, author of a treatise On the Temperance of Women — one of the few surviving philosophical works attributed to a woman from antiquity.

Fragments preserved in Stobaeus.

Pythagorean philosopher (on women's virtue) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Φιντύς
Transliteration
Phintýs
Pronunciation
/ ˈfɪn.tɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Phintys stands.

Phintys 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.

Phintyss before her.

Real people
Phintys
Pythagorean philosopher.
4th c. BCE
In fiction
Phintys
Fragments in Stobaeus.

Names connected to Phintys.

The number behind Phintys.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Phintys reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.