Parthenope
given name · Latin script
Meaning: One of the sirens, daughter of the god Achelous and the Muse Terpsichore (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Parthenope is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cyprus than in any other country. Parthenope is also written Παρθενοπη in Greek.
- CYCyprus1 in 9.8Kas Παρθενοπη(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 190Kfew recordsas Parthenopi
- DEGermany≈1 in 8.4Mfew recordsas Parthenopi
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Parthenope itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cyprus (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
129 named Παρθενοπη, 2011
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, as Παρθενοπη
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Parthenope in other scripts: Latin and Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Parthenopi in CY Cyprus, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more and Παρθενοπη in GR Greece.
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)One of the sirens, daughter of the god Achelous and the Muse Terpsichore.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Parthenope 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CY Cyprus | 129as Παρθενοπη | 1 in 9.8K | 129 | Parthenopi | 8 |
| GR Greece | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 190K | 6 | Παρθενοπη | 4 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 25M | — | Parthenopi | 10 |
| DE Germany | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 8.4M | — | Parthenopi | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Parthenopi | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Parthenopi | 1 |
129 people counted by CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census), 2011, counting the spelling παρθενοπη. 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: CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)Parthenope 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.
In English, a siren in Greek mythology
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Parténope.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Parthenope mean, and where does it come from?
- One of the sirens, daughter of the god Achelous and the Muse Terpsichore. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Parthenope a male or female name?
- Parthenope 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Parthenope?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted about 129 people named Παρθενοπη, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Greece, United States, Germany and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Parthenope most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Parthenope itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 9.8 thousand people named Παρθενοπη.
- How common is the name Parthenope?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 129 people named Παρθενοπη in 2011, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/parthenopeThe 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, “Parthenope”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.