Leucippe as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Leucippe

What is the meaning of the name Leucippe ?

The baby name Leucippe is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced Anglicized: LOO-KIP-ee (IPA: /ˌluːˈkɪpi/). Approx. Classical Greek: /leʊˈkɪp.peː/.

Leucippe is Greek in Origin.

Leucippe is the Latinized form of Ancient Greek Λευκίππη (Leukippē), from leukos “white, bright” and hippos “horse,” giving the meaning “white horse” or “white mare,” sometimes glossed “bright‑horsed.” It is cognate with other Greek hippos‑names such as Philippos. The feminine parallels the masculine Leucippus/Leukippos.

The name appears across classical myth for several minor figures and is famously borne by the heroine of the 2nd‑century CE Greek romance Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius, a work that kept the name visible in later Byzantine and Renaissance scholarship. Epigraphic and literary attestations exist, but it was never a common personal name; in modern usage it remains rare and largely antiquarian, occasionally revived by classicists. Variants and transliterations include Leucippe (Latin) and Leukippe (scholarly Greek); the related masculine is Leucippus/Leukippos.

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