Greek baby names boy or girl

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Half Greek baby due imminently. Sex unknown. Will likely live in both UK and Greece.

Given that my previous thread has confirmed Thanos is unusable in the UK - please give me your suggestions for both boy and girl names!

Tricky, no suggestions apart from try to avoid those with an "English" pronunciation which is different! Some years back I taught an Irene (pronounced i - as in it - ray knee) which is beautiful in the Greek pronunciation. Less so when said the way it is in the song "Goodnight Irene". I also taught an Iphigenia (pronounced Iffy yen knee ah) also beautiful in the Greek but she ended up correcting people who pronounced it Iffy jen nigh ah as in "Iphigenia in Tauris"

Anthony
Nicholas

For girls I love the name Athena

Alexander
Theodor
Julius
Sophia
Cora
Cathrine
Theodora
Lucas
Ophelia
Sebastian
Thea
Agatha
Athena
Dimitros
Lyra
Leander
Andreas

Adding Philip to the list for boys.

for girls adding Christina, Helen and Katrina. Stella is also popular with my Cypriot friends.

Xanthe

Constantinos/Dinos
Dimitri
Haris
Leonidas
Alexandros
Nikos

Eleni
Evanthea
Eleftheria (MN hates this but it’s beautiful in Greek)
Anastasia
Alexis
Electra

I also like Paraskevi but don’t think this is very nice in an English accent!

Theo not too dissimilar to Thanos and Thea is the feminine version. For a girl I love Calista and the variations, like Calli, Kalia etc which means beautiful one

Just seen your other thread.

if you like Thanos then what about using the long name Athanasios then you can shorten it to thanos but if it’s not working out you can switch to Nasos (or just Athanasios)

Lovely ideas, thank you!

Oooh thank you, I love all of these!! If you replace Haris with Athansios, that’s pretty much our list for boys at the moment!

Cant use Haris or anything with Ari as, where I’m from, I know it will be translated to “arse”. 🙈

Oenone 😍

Charalambous, nickname Harry then?

but honestly, if you love it, just put Athanasios on the birth certificate and use Thanos at home. He can decide what shortening to use elsewhere himself. Greeks tend to go by many different names anyways so no one Greek will find this at all weird.

Zeta?

Artemis?

Olympia? Quite good timing....

I also love Valentina and Valentinos, also Angelos for a boy

Nico

Caitlin

Thisbe

Ariadne is my favourite

Angelos
don’t know any Greek girls names

Love Athanasios

I look after a lovely half Greek girl called Nika x

Gaia
Arianne (i knew a little girl called this and it was short for ariadne which I love)

Atticus
Elias

Nepheli for a girl. Lovely

Artemis
Athené

Alexander
Dimitri

I missed the last thread, and I’m just here to say that Thanos is great and you should go for it!

I rather like Myrto for a girl.