Hippolytus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: son of Theseus (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/hipɔljtus/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Hippolytus is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
- NGNigeria
- NLNetherlands
- ITItaly
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Hippolytus
- Swahili:/hipɔljtus/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Dutch:/ɦɪppoː.liː.tʏs/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)son of Theseus
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Hippolytus 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 Latin, a male given name from Ancient Greek
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hippolytusb. 150ITChristian theologian and saint (c. 170 – c. 235)
- Hippolytus de Marsiliisb. 1451ITItalian lawyer
- Hippolytus Lutostanskyb. 1835RUPolish priest (1835–1915)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hippolytus mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Theseus Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Hippolytus?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /hipɔljtus/; in Dutch /ɦɪppoː.liː.tʏs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hippolytus a male or female name?
- Hippolytus is a male 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 Hippolytus have the most bearers?
- Hippolytus is most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hippolytusThe 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, “Hippolytus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.