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Name	Origin	Gender	Description
Aedon	Greek	Female	Plotted to kill a nephew out of jealousy and instead killed her own son. She was changed into a nightingale bird.
Agatha	Greek	Female	Good. Patron of nurses.
Alcestis	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was given in marriage to one who could harness wild beasts to her fathers royal chariot. She later gave her life for her husband.
Althea	Greek	Female	Health
Amethyst	Greek	Female	Type of precious jewel, usually colored mauve
Anastasia	Greek	Female	Resurrection. Saint who buried St. Peter and St. Paul and was martyred for it.
Andromeda	Greek	Female	Northern constellation and galaxy. In Greek Mythology, her mom claimed she was more beautiful than Poseidons daughter making him mad. Andromeda was sacrificed to save her fathers kingdom. Rescued by & married Perseus. A princess.
Angelica	Greek	Female	Angel
Anthea	Greek	Female	Flower
Antigone	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was known for devotion to her father and brother.
Antiope	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was known for her beauty
Aphrodite	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is a protectress of marriage. Helps with fertility and resides over births. Beautiful.
Appolonia	Greek	Female	Feminine version of Apollo which means masculine and strong
Artemis	Greek	Female	Protectress of virginity and helper with childbirth. Known as huntress, chaste, beautiful and stormy.
Asteria	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she changed herself into a quail to escape the advances of Zeus
Astraea	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was known to be just and virtuous. Sister of Modesty.
Atalanta	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was the fastest mortal. Anyone who could outrun her would marry her. Hoppomeues tricked her and won. She loved hunting and exercise.
Athens	Greek	Female	City in Greece. Means queen of heaven
Atlanta	Greek	Female	Relating to the sunken city of Atlantis and the capital of Georgia US
Auxo	Greek	Female	One of the three Horae divinities. Protectress of nature and seasons. Pictured as happy young girls with flowers, wheat, fruit and vine branches.
Basilia	Greek	Female	Regal
Baucis	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was known for purity and hospitality.
Belia	Greek	Female	Pillar
Beryl	Greek	Female	Gemstone
Beta	Greek	Female	Second letter of the Greek alphabet. Final stage of testing new software conducted by those outside the company that developed it.
Calandra	Greek	Female	Lark
Calliope	Greek	Female	Muse of poetry in Greek mythology. Pictured with stylus and tablets.
Callista	Greek	Female	Most beautiful, beauty
Caren	Greek	Female	Pure
Carpo	Greek	Female	One of the three Horae divinities. Protectress of nature and seasons. Pictured as happy young girls with flowers, wheat, fruit and vine branches.
Cassandra	Greek	Female	Predicting sadness, helper. In Greek Mythology, she was a prophetess who was not taken seriously even when she correctly predicted the Trojan war.
Cassia	Greek	Female	Flowering tree. County in the state of Idaho.
Cassiope	Greek	Female	Flowering shrub with small white flowers
Cassiopeia	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was the mother of Andromeda who bragged about how beautiful her daughter was. Queen of Ethiopia in Mythology. Northern Hemisphere constellation.
Castalia	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was simple and beautiful. City in the state of Iowa.
Catherine	Greek	Female	Pure. Saint who every Friday, would experience physically the Passion. She would be covered with wounds and a have an indention on her shoulder from a cross. Patron saint of art, artists, libraries, philosophers, women students.
Cathy	Greek	Female	Pure
Celina	Greek	Female	Moon goddess. Cities in the states of Ohio and Texas.
Celosia	Greek	Female	Tropical herbaceous flowering plant
Circe	Greek	Female	A Goddess with a complex character and having several functions. The duality of her naturs is split/incompatible/discordant. She primarily represents (what has been constructed as) the Dark aspects of the Great Goddess, although her character contains elements from the Light as well.
Cloe	Greek	Female	Young blooming plant
Clytia	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was know for her stormy jealously.
Cora	Greek	Female	Maiden. City in the state of Wyoming.
Corina	Greek	Female	Maiden
Cumin	Greek	Female	Earthy and strong flavored spice, native to the Mediterranean
Cynthia	Greek	Female	Mythological mountain
Cyrene	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is a great huntress. She killed beasts to protect the heard of her father Hypseus.
Daphine	Greek	Female	Laurel tree. In Greek Mythology she was pursued by Apollo and changed herself into a laurel tree. Apollo used the leaves of the tree to make himself a crown.
Delia	Greek	Female	Of Delos
Delta	Greek	Female	Fourth Greek letter. County in the state of Colorado. City in the state of Missouri.
Demeter	Greek	Female	Goddess of corn and harvest in Greek mythology. She represented wealth and fertility.
Demetra	Greek	Female	Feminine version of Demetrius which means follower of Demeter
Desdemona	Greek	Female	Sadness
Diamond	Greek	Female	Highly valued gemstone
Dionne	Greek	Female	Queen
Dorothea	Greek	Female	Gods gift. Saint who prayed about the Blessed Sacrament.
Eileithyia	Greek	Female	Goddess of motherhood. Pictured with one hand up and the other with a lighted torch.
Elena	Greek	Female	Oak Tree
Ellen	Greek	Female	Shining light
Empusa	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is a demon who terrorized travelers.
Envy	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is an evil minded spirit.
Eos	Greek	Female	Goddess of Dawn. Mother of morning, stars, winds and planets.
Erato	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she a muse pictured with myrtle branches, roses, lyre and bow.
Erebus	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is a traitor during the war of the Titans against the gods of Olympus.
Eris	Greek	Female	In Roman Mythology, she is the mother of the divinities of hunger, pain, oblivion and others.
Eugenia	Greek	Female	Feminine version of Eugene which means well born
Eulaline	Greek	Female	Good speaker
Euphemia	Greek	Female	Famous
Eurine	Greek	Female	Victorious
Europa	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was very beautiful. Zeus turned himself into a white bull. She liked the bull, climbed on the back of it and was kidnapped by Zeus.
Gaia	Greek	Female	Goddess of the earth in Greek mythology. Protectress of fertility of the soil.
Genesis	Greek	Female	Beginning
Heba	Greek	Female	Happiness
Hebe	Greek	Female	Given eternal youth and immortality by the nectar of the gods.
Hedy	Greek	Female	Pleasant
Hera	Greek	Female	Goddess of marriage and children in Greek mythology. Wife of Zeus. Her veiled head is a symbol of marriage. Protectress of fertility and women during childbirth.
Inula	Greek	Female	Mediterranean flowering plant
Iola	Greek	Female	Morning cloud
Ione	Greek	Female	Flower. Cities in the states of Colorado and Washington.
Irene	Greek	Female	Peace
Iris	Greek	Female	Flower. In Greek Mythology, she symbolizes a bridge between heavens and Earth. Pictured as a winged young woman and as a rainbow.
Isadora	Greek	Female	Feminine version of Isidore which means farmer
Ithaca	Greek	Female	Cities in New York and Michigan. Meaning steep
Jocasta	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is the birth mother of Oedipus who was destined to kill his birth father and marry her.
Kaila	Greek	Female	Pure
Karina	Greek	Female	Pure
Katherine	Greek	Female	Pure
Kathleen	Greek	Female	Pure
Katrina	Greek	Female	Pure. Katrine is the name of a city in the state of New York.
Kay	Greek	Female	Pure
Kitty	Greek	Female	Pure.
Kyra	Greek	Female	Royal lady
Kyrene	Greek	Female	Royal lady
Larissa	Greek	Female	Cheerful
Leithyia	Greek	Female	Goddess of motherhood. Pictured with one hand up and the other with a lighted torch.
Leucothea	Greek	Female	Sea goddess. Pictured white as the sea spray. Has the power to calm the sea.
Lois	Greek	Female	Well known fighter
Lotus	Greek	Female	Flower
Marpessa	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she picked a mortal husband over a god. She knew the mortal would be more loyal. She represents sensible judgment.
Marpessa	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she picked a mortal husband over a god. She knew the mortal would be more loyal. She represents sensible judgment.
Megaera	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, her name means hate.
Melanie	Greek	Female	Dark. City in the state of Louisiana.
Melinda	Greek	Female	Brave
Melissa	Greek	Female	Bee
Melora	Greek	Female	Golden apples
Metis	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is the symbol of prudence and craftiness.
Minlaine	Greek	Female	Dark
Mnemosyne	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is the symbol of memory.
Momos	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is the symbol of criticism and sarcasm.
Myrtle	Greek	Female	Type of plant. City in the state of Mississippi.
Nemesis	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is the symbol of moderation, discretion and humility.
Nerine	Greek	Female	Type of Daffodil
Nicola	Greek	Female	Victory
Olympia	Greek	Female	Mount Olympus where Greek Gods lived. Saint who became a nun when her husband died soon after their wedding.
Omega	Greek	Female	Last. Cities in the states of New Mexico and Ohio.
Ophelia	Greek	Female	Assistance
Ops	Greek	Female	Goddess of Wealth. Protectress of crops. Pictured as a women with her right hand offering help and her left had holding bread.
Orpheus	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was known to be very beautiful. She was bitten by a snake and died. Her husband Eurydice brought her back from the underworld, then he looked at her too early and she disappeared forever
Paige	Greek	Female	Child
Pamela	Greek	Female	All sweet
Panacea	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she can heal all illnesses with her medicinal herbs.
Pandora	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she opened a jar that she was to keep closed and all evils escaped. She was known for her beauty, grace, trickery, audacity and strength.
Penelope	Greek	Female	Weaver. In Greek Mythology, she was a symbol of martial fidelity. She waited for her husband Ulysses who was gone for many years fighting at Troy.
Penthesilea	Greek	Female	Queen of the Amazons. Achilles killed her when he fell in love with her.
Peridoea	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is the adopted mother of Oedipus who was destined to kill his birth father and marry his mother.
Persephone	Greek	Female	Queen of the underworld as Hades wife. Symbol of germination of plants. Pictured with a flame and poppy.
Phila	Greek	Female	Loves wooden areas
Philomena	Greek	Female	Strong friend
Phoebe	Greek	Female	Bright. In Greek Mythology, she was the grandmother of Apollo.
Phyllis	Greek	Female	Leafy branch. In Greek Mythology, she killed herself while waiting for her lover.
Polias	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is a protectress of cities.
Polyhymnia	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is the muse of geometry and history.
Pomona	Greek	Female	Goddess and protectress of fertility of plants and trees. Pictured with vine branches and grapes. Also, a city in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
Procris	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, her husband tested her fidelity and she failed. Then she tested his and he failed.
Psyche	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she is soul. Cupid fell in love with her instead of killing her. She became a slave to Cupids mom Venus to be near her lover.
Pyrrha	Greek	Female	When Zeus flooded the Earth because of the evilness of the mortals here, she and husband Daucalion were allowed to survive.
Rena	Greek	Female	Peace
Rhea	Greek	Female	River. God Zeuss mother. County in the state of Tennessee.
Scylla	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was a beauty who was turned into a monster when she did not return the love from a jealous stranger.
Selene	Greek	Female	Goddess of the moon in Greek mythology. Pictured with a white face that is to have shone brighter than the stars. Rode through the heavens each night on a silver chariot.
Sella	Greek	Female	Flowering climbing vine
Stacey	Greek	Female	Productive
Stalia	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was simple and beautiful. City in the state of Iowa.
Sybil	Greek	Female	Prophet
Terpsichore	Greek	Female	Mother of the sirens whose song overpowered those who heard it.
Thalassa	Greek	Female	From the oceans
Thallo	Greek	Female	One of the three Horae divinities. Protectress of nature and seasons. Pictured as happy young girls with flowers, wheat, fruit and vine branches.
Thea	Greek	Female	Goddess
Themis	Greek	Female	Represents law and justice in Greek mythology. Monitors fairness of decisions. Pictured with scales and sword (for justice), Her eyes are covered to represent the impartiality of her decisions.
Theodora	Greek	Female	Feminine version of Theodore which means God gives
Thera	Greek	Female	Boisterous
Thetis	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was known for her gentleness and hospitality.
Thomasina	Greek	Female	Feminine version of Thomas which means twin
Thyia	Greek	Female	Goddess of motherhood. Pictured with one hand up and the other with a lighted torch.
Tiffany	Greek	Female	Type of crystal
Titania	Greek	Female	Leader
Tyche	Greek	Female	In Greek Mythology, she was considered chance with kindness. Pictured with horn of plenty, wheel and wearing crown.
Vanessa	Greek	Female	Venice, Italy
Viva	Greek	Female	Alive
Xanthe	Greek	Female	Gold
Xylona	Greek	Female	From the grove of trees
Xylophila	Greek	Female	Loves wooden areas
Yelena	Greek	Female	Shining light
Zelina	Greek	Female	Zeal
Zoe	Greek	Female	Life. Saint who die because she refused meat from a pagan festival.
Zona	Greek	Female	Surround

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