Entry № 10951 · Greek origin

Urania Urania — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoo-RAY-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Heavenly, muse of astronomy"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "heavenly, muse of astronomy".

Urania (Οὐρανία) comes from the Greek ouranos (heaven). She is the muse of astronomy and astrology in Greek mythology — depicted with a globe and compass.

Urania is rare as a given name but rising — particularly in scientific and astronomical families.

Heavenly. The muse of astronomy.

The name in its native script.

Οὐρανία
Transliteration
Ouranía
Pronunciation
/ jʊˈreɪ.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Urania stands.

Urania 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.

Uranias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Urania
Greek muse of astronomy.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Urania.

The number behind Urania.

1

The Leader

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