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Hello all! I am really taking a shine to the name Kairos for a girl, but that was based on the meaning taken from the babynames.com website, which said that it was a Greek feminine name that meant "last born goddess." I looked it up on google to see if I could find any more explanation, and I can't find any other reference (except for one name site that I believe took the meaning from babynames.com or vice versa) that listed this meaning. All the other websites/references listed the following meanings:
- time, opportune time, opportunity, predestined time (most of them listed this as the meaning, kairos is a word in Greek that can be translated these different ways apparently)
- male, god of opportunity
- female, goddess from Jupiter
Does anyone know any background on this name with any sort of relation to the "last born goddess" meaning given by babynames.com, or the goddess from Jupiter?
Also, I have always thought of this as a girl's name, but what do you think?
Thanks a bunch!
- time, opportune time, opportunity, predestined time (most of them listed this as the meaning, kairos is a word in Greek that can be translated these different ways apparently)
- male, god of opportunity
- female, goddess from Jupiter
Does anyone know any background on this name with any sort of relation to the "last born goddess" meaning given by babynames.com, or the goddess from Jupiter?
Also, I have always thought of this as a girl's name, but what do you think?
Thanks a bunch!
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My 2C
Kairos means Time.
It is of Masculine gender.
There is a feminine version of teh name, Kairo (pronounced keh-ROH, and written with an omega). It is a beatiful name, it is recorded in *The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/). I am afraid I have never seen it used in contemporary Greece.
So I would never recommend KAIROS for your girl -- it is a guy name! -- but Kairo might be an interesting name! Just make sure you also give her a more conventional middle name (not , say, Moon Unit) so that she may choose when she grows up!
Kairos means Time.
It is of Masculine gender.
There is a feminine version of teh name, Kairo (pronounced keh-ROH, and written with an omega). It is a beatiful name, it is recorded in *The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/). I am afraid I have never seen it used in contemporary Greece.
So I would never recommend KAIROS for your girl -- it is a guy name! -- but Kairo might be an interesting name! Just make sure you also give her a more conventional middle name (not , say, Moon Unit) so that she may choose when she grows up!
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Please don't respond to posts saying "that is unsuitable as a name" because you don't like it. You should add "in your opinion," because your opinion is not a rule for anyone else. I am familiar with Carys/Charis, and neither is my style. I have a very hard time seeing how the name Kairos would embarrass any bearer of it. I am rarely offended by posts, but yours is quite rude. Learn some tact, and please clean it up.
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You can't see how giving your girl child a name of a male ancient Greek deity would be embarrassing? And you think I need advice! Dear me.
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Strange! I checked some of the sites talking about KAIROS as a "goddess from Jupiter" or a "last born goddess". Most of it was babyname stuff, obviously one copying from the other.
Checking just "kairos" I came across books, music and a lot of religious stuff - but no real person by that name.
What makes me suspicious:
1. -os is the typical masculine ending in Greek. So a goddess by that name would be somewhat surprising. Kairos sounds male to me as a name.
2. Jupiter is Roman, whereas Kairos is Greek. I guess the Latin equivalent would be Momentum.
As a meaning for the Greek word my dictionary gives: right measure, right place, right time, opportunity, advantage, circumstances.
On the Greek god I found: God of opportunity and the right moment. His picture was often shown in wrestling schools. There was a statue by Lysippos (4th cent. BC) showing the god with winged shoes, curls in his forehead and a bald back of his head. We "take time by the forelock", but the ancient Greeks obviously were thinking of the "backlock".
So I would be careful with KAIROS as a female name.
Andy ;—)
Checking just "kairos" I came across books, music and a lot of religious stuff - but no real person by that name.
What makes me suspicious:
1. -os is the typical masculine ending in Greek. So a goddess by that name would be somewhat surprising. Kairos sounds male to me as a name.
2. Jupiter is Roman, whereas Kairos is Greek. I guess the Latin equivalent would be Momentum.
As a meaning for the Greek word my dictionary gives: right measure, right place, right time, opportunity, advantage, circumstances.
On the Greek god I found: God of opportunity and the right moment. His picture was often shown in wrestling schools. There was a statue by Lysippos (4th cent. BC) showing the god with winged shoes, curls in his forehead and a bald back of his head. We "take time by the forelock", but the ancient Greeks obviously were thinking of the "backlock".
So I would be careful with KAIROS as a female name.
Andy ;—)
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Next time, please start your own post--adding tagalongs to other peoples' posts like this hurts everyone. People will be less likely to see your message and less likely to reply to the one you replied to, thinking that the person's question was answered.
Rijo is probably a variation of Reijo, which you can click on.
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Rijo is probably a variation of Reijo, which you can click on.
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The "backlock" part is nonsense, of course. The point is: You must catch him in time, once he has passed by, it's too late.
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