Echo
Echo is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Reflected sound; a mountain nymph.
What Echo means
Reflected sound; a mountain nymph.
Echo is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Echo comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Echo is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Echo?
Echo is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Echo is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Echo
Echo spans music and the natural world, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Echo
These share Echo's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Wren — The small, spirited songbird.
- Lark — The singing songbird.
- Robin — The bright songbird.
- Chloe — Young green shoot; blooming.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Emerald — The green gemstone.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Thalia — To flourish, to bloom.
- Acacia — Thorny tree; resurrection.
- Anthea — Flower; blossom.
- Azalea — The azalea flower.
- Calliope — Beautiful voice; muse of poetry.