Names from the language of philosophy, drama, and the New Testament.
Greek has given English some of its most enduring girl names — names of goddesses, of philosophy, of the New Testament. The language has been continuously written for over three thousand years, and the names persist in modern Greek, in English, and across the Christian world.
Many of these names came to the West through Latin, but their Greek origin is the older and richer story. We trace each one to its Greek root and explain the layered meanings.