Names Categorized "goddess"

'Asenat f Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew form of Asenath.

Asenath f Biblical
Means "devoted to the goddess Neith" in Ancient Egyptian. In the Old Testament this is the name of Joseph's Egyptian wife. She was the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.

Batari f Indonesian
Means "goddess" in Indonesian.

Bethari f Javanese
Javanese form of Batari.

Devi f Hinduism, Hindi, Tamil
Derived from Sanskrit देवी (devi) meaning "goddess". Devi is the Hindu mother goddess who manifests herself as all other goddesses.

Dewi 2 f Indonesian
Indonesian form of Devi.

Diana f English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Armenian, Georgian, Roman Mythology
Means "divine, goddesslike", a derivative of Latin dia or diva meaning "goddess". It is ultimately related to the same Indo-European root *dyew- found in Zeus. Diana was a Roman goddess of the moon, hunting, forests and childbirth, often identified with the Greek goddess Artemis.... [more]

Dianna f English
Variant of Diana.

Eileithyia f Greek Mythology
Greek form of Ilithyia.

Ercole m Italian
Italian form of Hercules.

Ercwlff m Welsh (Rare)
Welsh form of Hercules.

Eydís f Old Norse, Icelandic
Derived from the Old Norse elements ey "good fortune" or "island" and dís "goddess".

Heracles m Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latinized form of Herakles. However, the spelling used by the Romans was Hercules.

Hercule m French
French form of Hercules. It was used by the British writer Agatha Christie for the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, the protagonist in many of her mystery novels (debuting 1920).

Hercules m Roman Mythology
Latin form of Herakles.

Hjördís f Icelandic
Icelandic form of Hjördis.

Hjördis f Swedish
Swedish form of the Old Norse name Hjǫrdís meaning "sword goddess", derived from the elements hjǫrr "sword" and dís "goddess".

Hjørdis f Danish, Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian form of Hjördis.

Hjǫrdís f Old Norse
Old Norse form of Hjördis.

Irakli m Georgian
Georgian form of Herakles.

Iraklis m Greek
Modern Greek form of Herakles.

Jördis f German (Rare)
German form of Hjördis.

Manju f Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu
Means "lovely, beautiful" in Sanskrit.

Ramadevi f Hindi
From the name of the Hindu goddess Rama 2 (referring to Lakshmi) combined with Sanskrit देवी (devi) meaning "goddess".

Saldís f Old Norse
From the Old Norse elements salr "room, hall" and dís "goddess".

Sóldís f Icelandic
Icelandic form of Saldís.

Teona f Georgian
Georgian form of Theano.

Theano f Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology, Greek
From Greek θεά (thea) meaning "goddess". Theano was a 6th-century BC Greek philosopher associated with Pythagoras. The name was also borne by several figures from Greek mythology.

Þórdís f Old Norse, Icelandic
Means "Thor's goddess" from the name of the Norse god Þórr (see Thor) combined with Old Norse dís "goddess".

Tordis f Norwegian
Modern form of Þórdís.

Valdís f Old Norse, Icelandic
Derived from Old Norse valr meaning "the dead, the slain" and dís meaning "goddess".

Vanadís f Norse Mythology
Means "goddess of the Vanir" in Old Norse. This was an epithet of the Norse goddess Freya, given because she was a member of the Vanir (as opposed to the Æsir).

Vígdís f Old Norse
Derived from the Old Norse elements víg "war" and dís "goddess".

Vigdís f Icelandic
Icelandic form of Vígdís.

Vigdis f Norwegian
Norwegian form of Vígdís.

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