Entry № 10517 · Greek origin

Theano Theano — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ theh-AH-noh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Divine (Pythagoras's wife and pupil)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "divine (pythagoras's wife and pupil)".

Theano (Θεανώ) is the Greek word for "divine" or "godly." Theano of Croton (6th c. BCE) was the wife and pupil of Pythagoras — herself a philosopher and mathematician who wrote treatises on virtue, piety, and the immortality of the soul.

She is one of the earliest known female philosophers in Greek tradition.

Divine. Pythagoras's wife and philosophical equal.

The name in its native script.

Θεανώ
Transliteration
Theanṓ
Pronunciation
/ θɛˈɑː.noʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Theano stands.

Theano 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.

Theanos before her.

Real people
Theano of Croton
Pythagoras's wife and philosopher.
6th c. BCE
In fiction
Theano
Mentioned in Plato's dialogues.

Names connected to Theano.

The number behind Theano.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Theano reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.