Entry № 10478 · Latin origin

Tertia Tertia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TER-tee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Third (Scipio Africanus's daughter)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "third (scipio africanus's daughter)".

Tertia is from the Latin tertius (third). Aemilia Tertia (c. 230-162 BCE) was the noble Roman matron and wife of Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of Hannibal — mother of Cornelia Africana, who in turn was mother of the Gracchi brothers.

Third. Scipio Africanus's wife, grandmother of the Gracchi.

The name in its native script.

Tertia
Transliteration
Tertia
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɜːr.ti.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tertia stands.

Tertia 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.

Tertias before her.

Real people
Aemilia Tertia
Scipio Africanus's wife.
c. 230 – 162 BCE
In fiction
Tertia
Common in Roman historical fiction.

Names connected to Tertia.

The number behind Tertia.

1

The Leader

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