Electra

Gender Feminine
Scripts Pron. /ɪ.ˈlɛk.tɹə/ (English) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

Latinized form of Greek ἤλεκτρον (elektron) meaning "amber" [1] . In Greek myth she was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the sister of Orestes. She helped her brother kill their mother and her lover Aegisthus in vengeance for Agamemnon's murder. Also in Greek mythology, this name was borne by one of the Pleiades, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione.

Related Names

VariantElektra
Other Languages & CulturesIlektra (Greek) Elettra (Italian)

People think this name is

formal upper class devious strong strange complex serious
  1. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry h)/lektron, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dh%29%2Flektron.

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