This is a strong feminine name that doesn’t need to be all flowery in order to be feminine! The association with the Greek mythology only makes me like this name even more.
In Portuguese, we also call this goddess as Hera. And if you toss this word into a Portuguese-English translator, it translates into Ivy -- which is also used as a person's name.
Hair is an excellent name for a daughter! I don’t care what people say about the mythology! I love the meaning of it which is protectress! And I love how she was the goddess of marriage and, that alone made me want to name my daughter HERA! Plus, this name has a sweet sound to it!
Hera was the god of birth, families, and something else. She was always jelly and she was very rude. So rude that she throw her son off a mountain just because he did not look good.
Truly annoying that, instead of talking about the name itself, people choose to whine about how much they hate a millennia old mythological figure for being problematicTM. Anyways, this name is really lovely, though I'm not much of a fan of the English pronunciation.
Hera Bjork is an Icelandic singer who represented her country in 2010 Eurovision with the song "Je Ne Sais Quoi". She qualified for the semi final but did not crack the Top 10.
I personally think Hera was an amazing, underappreciated goddess and that "Hera" is a strong, beautiful name. I would be proud to have this name. She had every right to inflict those punishments on Zeus and his girls, after all he did promise he would be faithful to her.
Hera Agathon was a character in the SciFi show "Battlestar Galactica." Named after the goddess Hera, she was the child of Helo and Athena Agathon, and was the first human-Cylon hybrid. She ended up becoming Mitochondrial Eve.
I adore this name. It's so simple, yet so lovely. I would use this for a child.And also, I believe the goddess Hera had a perfect right to be angry and cold. You would be, too, if you had a husband like Zeus.
I love the name Hera, but I'm not too fond of the English pronunciation. I love the German one, though: HEH-rah (long, German E in the first syllable). I considered this name a while ago for a future daughter, and I'd still use it as a middle name.
Hera is my most favorite Greek Goddess, I admire her more than Aphrodite or Athena. But Zeus was always so mean to her, and all she wanted was to be loved by him. She never cheated on him, no matter how many times he was unfaithful to her, no matter how many times he abused her and looked upon her. What’s so pathetic of Zeus is that when she leaves, he goes to great heights to win her back. He says he can’t live without her, yet he treats her like dirt. Poor Hera. If only they all could see, she was far greater than Zeus ever was.
Yes, Hera did, in fact, throw Hephaestus off the mountain but that wasn't because of Zeus' affairs. Hephaestus is Hera's own child and she threw him because he wasn't exactly handsome. At least that's what Homer says. :)
She was very jealous of the women who her husband slept with in addition to her, and would inflict horrible punishments on them, no matter what their innocence.