Hypatia
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Hypatia is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “highest, best”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Hypatia mean?
Greek
“highest, best”
A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek].
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Hypatia a girl's or a boy's name?
Hypatia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hypatia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Hypatia, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2013.
Half of all the girls named Hypatia in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hypatia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
Names like Hypatia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Analeia, Marigold, Magnolia, Alaia, Amora, Elara, Analia, Aria, Alessia, Cataleya, Sophia, Ophelia
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hypatia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hypatia, updated 20 October 2026.