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Meaning & History
A name of unknown etymology. It could be formed from the Greek words "asty" (ἄστυ), meaning "city," and "nomós" (νομός), meaning "district," from from némō (νέμω, “I divide,” "I distribute"). Alternatively, the second root word could be "nomé" (νομή), meaning "a pasture, a grazing" or "spreading, multiplication." This is the name of several women in Greek mythology, including the mother of Calydon by Ares, a woman commonly called Chryseis in the Iliad of Homer, and one of the children of Niobe (a Niobid).