Ianthe
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About Ianthe
Like Violet, Lavender and Lilac, Ianthe is a purple flower name. Chosen by the poet Shelley for his daughter, Ianthe has a poetic, romantic, almost ethereal quality. In the ancient myth, she was the daughter of Oceanus, supreme ruler of the sea, and also a Cretan woman so beautiful that when she died the Gods made purple flowers grow around her grave.
Iantha is also used.
Ianthe was a favorite of the pastoral poets of the seventeenth century and then again in the early nineteenth. She appears in the works of Shelley, Barbara Pym and Georgette Heyer. Writer Richard Brautigan named his daughter Ianthe.
Pronounced eye-AN-thee.
As of October 2026, Ianthe ranked #13894 in US births in 2011 SSA, peaked at #3877 in 1914, Nameberry popularity #991.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Ianthe on lists
Famous Ianthes
- Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan
American writer
- Ianthe Eliza Shelley (1813
1876), daughter of the poet Shelley and his first wife Harriet Westbrook
Ianthe in pop culture
- Ianthe Thomson
character in Rosamond Lehmann's "The Ballad and the Source" (1944)
- Miss Ianthe Broome is a charming
refined young woman in a Barbara Pym novel.
- Ianthe
character in John Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819)
- Ianthe (Demon Spawn)
character in Sarah J. Maas's series "A Court of Thorns and Roses" (A Court of Mist and Fury)
- Ianthe Violet Sin Ohne
character in Sherin Subhan's YA series on Wattpad "The Von Meer Academy"
- Ianthe Tridentarius
character in the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir