Yevdokiia
Just over 360 women in Poland carry it and no new girls have been given it in years, so most Poles will never meet one. A Greek name at root, from words for "good glory".
Yevdokiia Pronunciation
What Yevdokiia means
Where Yevdokiia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yevdokiia comes from the Greek Eudokia, formed from eu, "good," and a root that means to seem good or to be well pleased. The short meaning handed down is "good glory," or in Polish dobra sława. The origin is Greek.
The name moved into Slavic use through the church. One early bearer was Aelia Eudocia, a fifth-century empress in Constantinople who wrote verse in Greek and left religious poetry behind her. Saint Eudokia, honored in the Eastern calendar, kept the name in circulation among Ukrainian families for a long time.
In Ukraine the feast day falls in March, and villages once called it Yevdokhy and read the morning weather for the first sign of spring. A child entered on a school register as Yevdokiia answers to a name that Byzantine poets and empresses once carried. The sense it holds is the older one: good pleasure, good glory, dobra sława.
How many people are named Yevdokiia
1 in 62276 women in Poland is named Yevdokiia. 362 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1574 among female names.
Yevdokiia as a middle name
Yevdokiia is a first name for 362 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5363rd, between Yetunde (3) and Yewande (3).
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