Baby name
RARE
🇬🇷 🇩🇪 Eudokia
/yoo · doh · KEE · ah/
Meaning
“Good will, well pleased”
Ancient Greek name meaning 'to be well pleased, to be satisfied', from eu ('good') and dokeo ('to think, to imagine, to suppose'). Common among Byzantine royalty; borne by a saint and by the wife of the 5th-century emperor Theodosius II.
Nicknames
kia
Vibe
regalspiritual
How it ages.
Ancient and steeped in history: tied to Byzantine saints and empresses, but rarely used today outside Orthodox Christian families.
The cultural moment.
Very rare; used mainly in Greek and Orthodox Christian families.