Suggested Names (PART 1)

AGFN H-Z

ANCIENT GREEK
FEMALE NAME
(Greek Community)

HAGNE:
Greek name meaning "chaste; pure," from hagnos "holy." This is the original Greek form of English Agnes.

HALKYONE:
Variant of Greek Alkyone, meaning "kingfisher."

HARMONIA:
Greek myth name of the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, meaning "concord, harmony."

HATHOR:
Greek form of Egyptian Het-Heru, meaning "house of Horus."

HEBE (Hêbê):
Greek myth name of a goddess of youth, derived from the word hebos, meaning "young."

HECUBA:
Variant of Greek Hekabe, myth name of the mother of Cassandra and Polydorus by Priam, possibly meaning "far off."

HEKABE:
Original form of Greek Hecuba which may be a variant of Latin Hecate, meaning "far off."

HEKATE:
Original Greek form of Latin Hecate, meaning "far off."

HEKUBA:
Variant of Greek Hecuba, possibly meaning "far off."

HELEN:
Greek myth name of the most beautiful mortal woman ever to exist whose abduction by Paris caused the Trojan war. The name has been disputed for a long time. There have been attempts to link it with Greek helene "torch" or selene "moon." However, recently it has been compared by scholars to Vedic Saranyu, wife of Surya, who was abducted just as Helen of Greek mythology was; the name may therefore be from the Proto-Indo-European root *sel "to elope" and have been borrowed from the older Hindu myth of the abduction of the goddess of dawn.

HERA:
Greek myth name of the wife of Zeus. Her name is not Greek or Indo-European, it is therefore believed that she may be a female deity of the Minoan pantheon or of some other unidentifiable pre-Greek people. Her Roman name Juno means "vital force."

HERMIA:
Feminine form of Greek Hermes, meaning "of the earth."

HERMIONE:
Greek myth name of the daughter of Menelaus and Helen, derived from the name of the Greek god Hermes, meaning "of the earth."

HERO:
Greek myth name of the lover of Leander, meaning "hero."

HESTIA:
Greek myth name of the goddess of the hearth, meaning "hearth, fireside."

HIPPOLYTE:
Feminine form of Hippolytos, meaning "horse-freer." Greek myth name of the daughter of Ares.

HYPATIA:
Feminine form of Greek Hypatos, meaning "most high, supreme."

IANTHA:
Variant of Greek Ianthe, name meaning "violet flower."

IANTHE:
Greek myth name of an ocean nymph, meaning "violet flower."

IANTHINA:
Elaborated form of Greek Ianthe, meaning "violet flower."

IO:
Greek myth name of a princess loved by Zeus. Also the name of a moon of Jupiter. Meaning unknown.

IOANNA:
Feminine form of Greek Ioannes, meaning "God is gracious."

IOKASTE:
Original Greek form of Latin Jocasta, possibly meaning "violet tinted (clouds)."

IOLA:
Variant of Greek Iole, meaning "violet."

IOLANTA:
Variant of Greek Iolanthe, meaning "violet flower." Name of an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, based on the Danish play "King Rene's Daughter," by Henrik Hertz. The first performance took place in St. Petersburg in 1892.