Entry № 853 · Greek origin

Arethusa Arethusa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ air-eh-THOO-sah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"A nymph of springs and fountains"

Syllables

First recorded

Antiquity

The meaning

A name that means "a nymph of springs and fountains".

Arethusa was a nymph who, fleeing a river god, was transformed into a clear freshwater spring.

Flowing and lyrical, her name belongs to the world of woodland waters.

A nymph of springs and fountains — a name from Greek myth.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Arethusa

Transliteration: Arethusa
Pronunciation: / a.ɾeˈθu.sa /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Arethusa stands.

Arethusa 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.

Namesakes

Arethusas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Arethusa.

Numerology

The number behind Arethusa.

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arethusa reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.