Entry № 9110 · Hebrew origin

Salome Alexandra Salome Alexandra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-LOH-may ah-lex-AHN-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Hasmonean Jewish queen of Judea"
Syllables
6
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "hasmonean jewish queen of judea".

Salome Alexandra (139-67 BCE) — combining the Hebrew Shalom-tziyon ("peace of Zion") and the Greek Alexandra — was the Hasmonean queen of Judea who ruled in her own right (76-67 BCE) after the death of her husband Alexander Jannaeus. Her reign was remembered as the only sustained period of peace and prosperity in late Hasmonean Judea — she allied with the Pharisees, kept Rome at bay, and was praised in the Talmud (Sifra on Leviticus): "In the days of Simeon ben Shetah and Queen Salome, rain fell on the eves of Sabbath only."

Hasmonean queen of Judea.

The name in its native script.

שלומציון אלכסנדרה
Transliteration
Shlomtziyon Alexandra
Pronunciation
/ səˈloʊ.meɪ æl.ɪɡˈzɑːn.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Salome Alexandra stands.

Salome Alexandra 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.

Salome Alexandras before her.

Real people
Salome Alexandra
Hasmonean queen of Judea.
139 – 67 BCE
In fiction
Salome Alexandra
Josephus's Antiquities.

Names connected to Salome Alexandra.

The number behind Salome Alexandra.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Salome Alexandra reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.