Girl · Greek
Despina
Say it: des-PEE-nuh
Meaning
From Greek despoina 'lady, mistress', used of the Virgin Mary.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A traditional modern Greek name honouring the Virgin as 'the Lady'.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 1,462 babies given this name since 1914
- At its height in 1976, about 1 in 40,700 girls
- 11 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Despoina
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Royal and noble genealogies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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