Entry № 10491 · Greek origin

Thaïs Thaïs — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-EES /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Bandage / loved one (Massenet's opera + Anatole France novel)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "bandage / loved one (massenet's opera + anatole france novel)".

Thaïs is from the Greek Thais — possibly meaning "bandage" or "loved one"; the historical Thaïs was a 4th-century BCE Greek hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great. Thaïs (1894 opera) — Jules Massenet's opera based on the France novel; the "Méditation" — the violin solo that plays between acts — is one of the most-performed pieces in the violin repertoire (Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Joshua Bell have all recorded it). Thaïs Carla — French personality. The name reflects the broader 21st-century vintage-Greek revival.

Bandage / loved one.

The name in its native script.

Θαΐς
Transliteration
Thaḯs
Pronunciation
/ tɑːˈiːs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Thaïs stands.

Thaïs 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.

Thaïss before her.

Real people
Saint Thaïs of Egypt
4th-century desert hermit.
4th century
Thaïs Henríquez
Spanish Olympic synchronized swimmer.
born 1982
In fiction
Thaïs
Anatole France's novel + Massenet's opera.
1894

Names connected to Thaïs.

The number behind Thaïs.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Thaïs reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.