User-submitted name Mysia - Behind the Name

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Gender Feminine

Usage Biblical, Greek Mythology

Scripts Μυσία(Greek)

Pronounced Pron. MIZ-ee-ə(Biblical English, Greek Mythology)

MISH-ə(Biblical English, Greek Mythology)

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Meaning & History

From the name of a region in Asia Minor mentioned in Acts in the New Testament. It allegedly meant "land of beech trees". This was also an epithet of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Artemis.