Entry № 8187 · Latin origin

Plautilla Plautilla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ plow-TEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Florentine nun-painter (first female chronicled in Vasari)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "florentine nun-painter (first female chronicled in vasari)".

Plautilla is a Latin diminutive. Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588) was the first known Florentine female Renaissance painter — a Dominican nun at the Convent of Santa Caterina da Siena who taught herself painting by copying Fra Bartolomeo. The first woman to paint a Last Supper — her recently restored 7-meter masterpiece is now in Santa Maria Novella, Florence.

Florentine nun-painter (first female chronicled in Vasari) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Plautilla
Transliteration
Plautilla
Pronunciation
/ plaʊˈtiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Plautilla stands.

Plautilla 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.

Plautillas before her.

Real people
Plautilla Nelli
Florentine nun-painter.
1524 – 1588
In fiction
Plautilla
Vasari's Lives of the Painters.
1568

Names connected to Plautilla.

The number behind Plautilla.

5

The Seeker

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