Entry № 7052 · Greek origin

Myrina Myrina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mee-REE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Queen of Amazons (Greek + Diodorus Siculus)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "queen of amazons (greek + diodorus siculus)".

Myrina is from the Greek Μύρινα (Murina). A modern American baby name in the broader Greek-mythological heritage aesthetic. Myrina is one of the foundational Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek mythological heritage. The foundational name connects to foundational Myrina — foundational legendary foundational Queen of the Amazons + foundational central to foundational *Diodorus Siculus's Bibliotheca Historica Book 3.55 (foundational ~30 BCE Greek-Sicilian historian) + foundational led foundational Amazonian army of foundational 30,000 cavalry + 3,000 infantry + foundational conquered foundational Atlantians + foundational Gorgons + foundational founded foundational cities in foundational North Africa + foundational Aegean Sea + foundational central to foundational pan-Greek Amazonian mythological heritage + foundational central to foundational ancient Lemnos heritage (where foundational Iliad mentions foundational Myrina* — foundational island city); foundational also foundational Myrina archaeological site on foundational Lemnos island + foundational central to foundational ~3,000-year-old Greek archaeological heritage + foundational Hellenistic-Roman terracotta figurines from foundational Myrina necropolis foundational central to foundational Greek + Roman art history heritage + foundational ~2,500 figurines housed at foundational Louvre Museum. Foundational Greek feminine name reflecting Greek Amazonian mythological heritage.

Featured throughout Greek heritage.

Queen of Amazons (Greek). Foundational Greek-mythological feminine + foundational Greek Murina + foundational Myrina foundational legendary Queen of the Amazons + foundational Diodorus Siculus's Bibliotheca Historica Book 3.55 foundational ~30 BCE Greek-Sicilian historian + foundational led Amazonian army of 30,000 cavalry + 3,000 infantry + foundational conquered Atlantians + Gorgons + foundational founded cities in North Africa + Aegean Sea + foundational pan-Greek Amazonian mythological heritage + foundational ancient Lemnos heritage + foundational Iliad mentions Myrina foundational island city + foundational Myrina archaeological site on Lemnos island + foundational ~3,000-year-old Greek archaeological heritage + foundational Hellenistic-Roman terracotta figurines from Myrina necropolis foundational Greek + Roman art history heritage + foundational ~2,500 figurines housed at Louvre Museum.

The name in its native script.

Μύρινα
Transliteration
Murina
Pronunciation
/ miːˈriː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Myrina stands.

Myrina 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.

Myrinas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Myrina
Queen of the Amazons + Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica 3.55 + led Amazonian army of 30,000 cavalry + Lemnos island + Myrina terracotta figurines at Louvre.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Myrina.

The number behind Myrina.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Myrina reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.