Entry № 10371 · Greek origin

Taygete Taygete — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tay-IJ-eh-tee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"A mountain nymph of the Pleiades"

Syllables

First recorded

Antiquity

The meaning

A name that means "a mountain nymph of the pleiades".

Taygete was a Pleiad and a mountain nymph, who gave her name to the great range of Mount Taygetus.

Airy and high, it joins the mountains to the stars.

A mountain nymph of the Pleiades — a name from Greek myth.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Taygete

Transliteration: Taygete
Pronunciation: / taˈi.dʒe.te /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Taygete stands.

Taygete 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

Taygetes before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Taygete.

Numerology

The number behind Taygete.

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Taygete reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.