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This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
The names Phoebe and Phoebus (masculine) came to be applied as synonyms for Artemis/Diana and Apollo respectively, [8] as well as for Luna and Sol, the lunar goddess and the solar god, by the Roman poets; the late-antiquity grammarian Servius writes that "Phoebe is Luna, like Phoebus is Sol." [9] Phoebe was, like Artemis, identified by Roman ...
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To the Egyptians, the frog was an ancient symbol of fertility, related to the annual flooding of the Nile. Heqet was originally the female counterpart of Khnum, or the wife of Khnum by whom she became the mother of Her-ur. [2] It has been proposed that her name is the origin of the name of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft.
This includes all feminine given names that can also be found in the subcategories. ... English feminine given names (805 P) English-language feminine given names ...
The name was among the 100 most popular baby names in France between 1900 and 1928, and among the top 500 names for girls at different points between 1929 and 1969, and again between 1995 and 2022. It was among 100 most popular names for girls born in the United States between 1880 and 1919, and remained among the 1,000 most popular names for ...
The name of Rappaccini's daughter is a reference to Dante's Beatrice, allegory of Divine Wisdom and Divine Grace: the name means "she who brings bliss", "she who makes blessed". Dante meets her in the Garden of Eden, while a hundred angels scatter flowers above and around her ( Purgatory Canto XXX:19–39 ).
The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀩𐀏𐀭𐀅𐀨 (a-re-ka-sa-da-ra or / aleksandra /), written in the Linear B syllabic script. [5] Alexandra and its masculine equivalent, Alexander, are both common names in Greece as well as countries where Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are spoken.