Euphemia

Gender Feminine

Meaning & History

Means "to use words of good omen" from Greek εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and phemi) meaning "to speak, to declare" [2] [3] . Saint Euphemia was an early martyr from Chalcedon. This name has been historically common in Scotland, where it was sometimes used as an Anglicized form of Oighrig .

Related Names

Rootseu + phemi
DiminutivesEffie, Eppie, Femie, Phemie (English)
Masculine FormEuphemios (Ancient Greek)
Other Languages & CulturesEffimia (Greek) Eufemia (Italian) Eufêmia (Portuguese (Brazilian)) Eufémia (Portuguese (European)) Jefimija (Serbian) Eufemia (Spanish)

Popularity

People think this name is

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Name Days

Denmark: September 16
Germany: September 16
  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Εὐφημία.
  2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry eu)=, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Deu%29%3D.
  3. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry fhmi/, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dfhmi%2F.

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