# Eudocia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/eudocia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | “satisfied”, “satisfying one”, “to be well-pleased”, “well-pleasing”, “-ia: forming adjectives”, “eu-: good”, “to think”, “to be thought” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Latin Eudocia, from Ancient Greek Εὐδοκία (Eudokía), from Ancient Greek εὐδοκία (eudokía, “satisfied or satisfying one”), from εὐδοκέω (eudokéō, “to be well-pleased or well-pleasing”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia: forming adjectives”), from εὐ- (eu-, “eu-: good”) + δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, to be thought, to seem”). Doublet of Evdokia.

## In other languages

- French: Eudocie
- German: Eudocia
- Greek: Ευδοκία
- Italian: Eudocia
- Latin: Eudocia
- Latvian: Jevdokija
- Russian: Евдокия
- Portuguese: Eudócia
- Spanish: Eudocia

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.