Euterpe
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The Muse of music and lyric poetry
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/juːtɜɹpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Euterpe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 8.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)
26 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Euterpe (the Muse of music and lyric poetry)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Euterpe is read(measured from records)
Euterpe is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English34%
The Muse of music and lyric poetry.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
/. muse of the flute
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese27%
Euterpe (the Muse of music and lyric poetry)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Euterpe in Spanish.
- French6.4%
L’euterpe est un palmier aux feuilles très découpées. Il tient son nom de la muse de la musique et de la poésie lyrique.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Euterpe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 38 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Euterpe | 11 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | listed | — | — |
26 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Euterpe is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Eugyna, Eugynia, Eujani, Eujania, La que entretiene, la que deleita, musa Eujanie, Euken, Eukene, Euxenia, de la música y el canto
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Greek, griego: eu ‘bien’ + terpō ‘deleitar’; ‘la que deleita’
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 38 | #40,993 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #104,241 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #30,678 |
| PT Portugal | Um Nome Para o Bebê (Barbosa, 1990) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Euterpe come from?
- Euterpe (the Muse of music and lyric poetry) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Euterpe?
- A machine transcription gives /juːtɜɹpi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Euterpe a male or female name?
- Euterpe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Euterpe mean?
- In English, The Muse of music and lyric poetry.
- In which country does Euterpe have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 26 people named Euterpe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Euterpe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Euterpe is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 2.9 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Euterpe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 26 people named Euterpe in 2022, about 1 in 8.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Euterpe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/euterpeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Euterpe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.