Entry № 8327 · Greek origin

Procris Procris — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PROH-kris /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Athenian princess (Cephalus's wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "athenian princess (cephalus's wife)".

Procris (Πρόκρις) was the Athenian princess, daughter of King Erechtheus and wife of Cephalus.

Featured in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Athenian princess. Accidentally killed by her husband Cephalus.

The name in its native script.

Πρόκρις
Transliteration
Prókris
Pronunciation
/ ˈproʊ.krɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Procris stands.

Procris 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.

Procriss before her.

Real people
Procris
Greek mythological figure.
In fiction
Procris
Heroine of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Book VII

Names connected to Procris.

The number behind Procris.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Procris reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.