Eunice
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A biblical name from Ancient Greek Εὐνίκη (Euníkē), from εὖ (eû, “good”) + νίκη (níkē, “victory”).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Eunice
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:2 Timothy 1:5:
- When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
- 2009, Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass, Vintage, →ISBN, pages 109–110:
- "Eunice," he said consideringly.
She paused in the midst of licking a dab of frosting off one finger.
"Properly speaking," he said, "it should be 'You-nike-ee'. That's the way Greeks would have said it."
"You-niss is bad enough," she told him. "I've always hated my name."
"Oh, it's a fine name. It means 'victorious'."
- A city in Louisiana
- A city in New Mexico
Translations[edit]
female given name
Etymology 2[edit]
Americanized form of Spanish Núñez.
Proper noun[edit]
Eunice (plural Eunices)
- A surname from Spanish.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Eunice is the 38103rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 582 individuals. Eunice is most common among White (73.88%) and Black/African American (17.53%) individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Eunice”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 539.
References[edit]
- ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
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