Name
Demeter
Meaning
Demeter is a feminine name of Greek origin meaning “earth mother (probable)”.
Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest and the grieving mother whose search for Persephone explains the seasons. Her name is most often read as earth mother, from an old word for earth joined to meter, mother, though scholars still debate the first element.
Very rare as a given name; its forms Demetria and Demetrius are more familiar.
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Demeter is a feminine name of Greek origin meaning “earth mother (probable)”. Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest and the grieving mother whose search for Persephone explains the seasons.
Demeter is traditionally a feminine (girl) name. Very rare as a given name; its forms Demetria and Demetrius are more familiar.
The name Demeter comes from Greek. Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest and the grieving mother whose search for Persephone explains the seasons. Her name is most often read as earth mother, from an old word for earth joined to meter, mother, though scholars still debate the first element.
Demeter is pronounced dih-MEE-ter.
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