Entry № 10492 · Greek origin

Thaisa Thaisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ thy-EE-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Bandage / Pericles's princess (Shakespeare)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "bandage / pericles's princess (shakespeare)".

Thaisa is from the Greek Thaís — possibly meaning bandage or beholder. Thaisa in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-1608) — beloved daughter of King Simonides of Pentapolis; wife of Pericles; mother of Marina; one of the most-celebrated Shakespearean romance heroines; her apparent death at sea, miraculous resurrection by Cerimon, and eventual reunion with her family form one of the iconic romance plot structures in late Shakespeare; the play has been performed continuously since the 17th century and adapted into operas by Telemann, Tippett, and others. Thaïs (the Athenian hetaira, c.

Bandage / Pericles's princess (Shakespeare) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Θαΐς
Transliteration
Thaís
Pronunciation
/ θaɪˈiː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Thaisa stands.

Thaisa 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.

Thaisas before her.

Real people
Thaïs (Athenian)
Alexander's companion (Persepolis 330 BCE).
4th c. BCE
In fiction
Thaisa (Pericles)
Shakespeare's romance heroine.
1607
Thaïs (Massenet)
1894 French opera + Meditation aria.
1894

Names connected to Thaisa.

The number behind Thaisa.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Thaisa reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.