Feodosiia
Greek at root, from the words behind "gift of god", and carried in Poland by Ukrainian families. Only about two dozen women here hold it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Feodosiia Pronunciation
Feodosiia is pronounced fe-o-DOSH-yah (/fɛɔˈdɔɕja/).
What Feodosiia means
Where Feodosiia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Feodosiia comes from the Greek Theodosia, built from theos, god, and dosis, a giving. The meaning stays close to the surface: gift of god. The form with F rather than Th belongs to the East Slavic tradition, where Greek theta hardened into F. The same shift turned Theodore into Feodor.
A city carries the name too. On the Crimean coast stands Feodosia, founded by Greek colonists as Theodosia around the sixth century BC. From that Greek world the name passed into Ukrainian, and Feodosiia is the Ukrainian shape of it. It has no diminutive fixed to it here, no shortened pet form standing in.
On a Polish school register the name sits at full length, four syllables. That length is part of what it means to carry it. Feodosiia keeps the old promise of its Greek root: a gift of god.
How many people are named Feodosiia
1 in 1024720 women in Poland is named Feodosiia. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9301 among female names.