Euphemia

Where Euphemia comes from

Name of an early Christian martyr, from Ancient Greek Εὐφημία (Euphēmía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + φήμη (phḗmē, “repute”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Euphemia
  • Ancient Greek
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #738 among girls with 6 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes

No widely known Euphemia turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.