Eudocia (Latin) or Eudokia () is a female given name meaning "famous" or "well regarded". In Christian translations, its meaning is "good will" or "good teaching".
It was mainly popular in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, lingering on in Eastern Europe, particularly in honor of various saints. In modern Greek, the present pronunciation is romanized as . Slavic forms of the name include (Bulgarian and ), (), and ().
The name is also frequently (mistakenly) conflated with Eudoxia and used for various places named after women named Eudocia.
People
Nobility Aelia Eudocia (c. 401–460), also Saint Eudocia or Eudocia Augusta, Byzantine empress, wife of Theodosius II and daughter-in-law of Aelia Eudoxia Princess Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III) (439–466/474?), daughter of Emperor Valentinian III and Licinia Eudoxia, wife of Vandal king Huneric Fabia Eudokia (c. 580–612), Byzantine empress, wife of the emperor Heraclius Eudokia (wife of Justinian II) (7th century), Byzantine empress, wife of Justinian II Eudokia (wife of Constantine V) (8th century), Byzantine empress, wife of Constantine V Eudokia Ingerina (c. 840 – c. 882), Byzantine empress, wife of the 10th century Emperor Basil I Eudokia Dekapolitissa (fl. 855–867), Byzantine empress, wife of Michael III Eudokia Baïana (died 901), Byzantine empress, wife of Leo VI the Wise Bertha-Eudokia of Provence (died 949), Byzantine empress Eudocia or Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1021–1096), Byzantine empress, wife of emperors Constantine X Doukas and Romanos IV Diogenes, putative author of a dictionary of history and mythology Eudokia Komnene, daughter of John II Komnenos (1087–1143), wife of Theodore Vatatzes Eudokia Komnene (daughter of Alexios I) (1094 – c. 1129), daughter of Alexios I Komnenos Eudokia Komnene, Lady of Montpellier (c. 1160 – c. 1203), wife of William VIII of Montpellier Eudokia Angelina (d. 1211, or later), Byzantine princess, consort of Stefan the First-Crowned of Serbia Eudokia Palaiologina (1265–1302), daughter of Michael VIII Palaiologos and his wife Theodora Maria Eutokia Toaputeitou (d. 1869), queen of the Polynesian island of Mangareva, wife of Maputeoa, mother of Joseph Gregorio II
Evdokia Evdokia, the modern Greek pronunciation of the name, may intend:
Evdokia Bobyleva (1919–2017), Russian teacher Evdokia Gaer (1934–2019), Russian educator, politician and human rights activist Evdokia Kadi, Cypriot singer Evdokia (film), a 1971 film starring Maria Vassiliou, George Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou, and Christos Zorbas Evdokia zeibekiko, the characteristic zeibekiko song, taken from the film
Places Eudocia, former name of Tokat, Turkey Eudocia (Cappadocia), an ancient city in Anataolia in Turkey Eudocia (Lycia), an ancient city in Anatolia Eudocias (Pamphylia), an ancient city in Anatolia Eudocia (Phrygia), an ancient city in Anatolia
See also
Evdokija, Serbian variant Evdokiya, Russian and Bulgarian variant
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