Entry № 3114 · Greek origin

Eudokia Eudokia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoo-DOH-kee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Goodwill (Byzantine empress-poet)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "goodwill (byzantine empress-poet)".

Eudokia (Εὐδοκία) combines the Greek eu (good) and dokein (to seem) — "goodwill, good favor." Aelia Eudokia (c. 401-460) was the Byzantine empress, wife of Theodosius II — born a pagan daughter of an Athenian philosopher. A celebrated Christian poet, she rewrote Homer's verses into a Greek life of Christ.

Multiple Byzantine empresses bore the name; her tomb is in Jerusalem.

Goodwill. Byzantine empress and Christian poet who rewrote Homer.

The name in its native script.

Εὐδοκία
Transliteration
Eudokía
Pronunciation
/ juːˈdoʊ.ki.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eudokia stands.

Eudokia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eudokias before her.

Real people
Aelia Eudokia
Byzantine empress and poet.
c. 401 – 460
In fiction
Eudokia
Rewrote Homer as Christian poetry.

Names connected to Eudokia.

The number behind Eudokia.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eudokia reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.