Girl · Greek
Eudora
Say it: yoo-DOR-uh
Meaning
From Greek eu 'good' and dōron 'gift'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A nymph's name in myth, used now and then in 19th-century America.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 2,094 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1891, about 1 in 10,300 girls
- 12 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Greek | Evdora |
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Famous bearers
- Eudora Welty, American writer
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Where this comes from
- Ancient Greek literature and history (Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch and others)
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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