Ewodia
Only four Polish women carry it, and no girl has been named Ewodia this century. The name comes from Greek, eu and hodos, "good road": a wish for safe passage to someone setting out.
Ewodia Pronunciation
Ewodia is pronounced e-VOD-yah (/ɛˈvɔdja/).
What Ewodia means
Where Ewodia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ewodia comes from Greek. It joins eu, meaning good, with hodos, meaning road or way, so the whole name reads as good journey, or in Polish dobra droga. The same hodos sits inside the word exodus and inside method, both built from a Greek sense of a path taken.
A woman named Euodia appears in the New Testament, in Paul's letter to the Philippians, where he asks her and Syntyche to settle a quarrel. That single line, Philippians 4:2, is the oldest written trace of the name. It places Ewodia among the early Christians of Philippi in Macedonia.
The meaning stays close to the original. Good road, safe passage, a wish for someone setting out. On a Polish class register the name would stand out today. It is rare here, without a settled name-day, and without the diminutives that soften more common names.
Ewodia keeps its Greek shape: eu for good, hodos for the way ahead.
When Ewodia celebrates name day
Ewodia appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 April.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Ewodia
1 in 5635958 women in Poland is named Ewodia. 4 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #29854 among female names.