Girl · Greek
Artemisia
Say it: ar-teh-MEE-zyah
Meaning
From Greek, connected with the goddess Artemis, whose own name is of unknown origin.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 96 babies given this name since 1999
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 139,200 girls
- 11 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Greek | Artemisia |
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Famous bearers
- Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque painter
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Where this comes from
- Ancient Greek literature and history (Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch and others)
- Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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