Hypatia

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Hipatia in EC Ecuador, US United States, ES Spain and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hypatia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Curie
• Lovelace
• Artemisia
• Andromeda
• Germaine
• Emiliana
• Cassiopeia
• Zenobia
• Antigone
• Eurydice
• Persephone
• Calypso

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Hypatia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Greek given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States

  Also written Ypatia, Ipatia, Υπατία, Υπατια

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Hypatia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Greek philosopher

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Hypatiab. 360EGGreek Neoplatonist philosopher
• Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonnerb. 1858GBBritish activist (1858–1935)
• Hypatie Rodocanachib. 1872not in their usual nameEnglish sculptor (1872-1951)
• Hypatia Hasbrouckpastor (died 2001)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Hypatia?

A machine transcription gives /xʝpat̪ja/ (IPA) for Spanish.

What does the name Hypatia mean, and where does it come from?

A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Hypatia a male or female name?

Hypatia 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.

In which country does Hypatia have the most bearers?

In Ecuador, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Hipatia, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name Hypatia?

In the United States, the national register counted 171 people named Hypatia in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

How common is Hypatia compared with other names?

In Ecuador, Hypatia is the 766th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.