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[Opinions] Your favorite UNUSUAL Greek names...
... Not just plain old ones. I mean, as an example, a few of my unusual favorite Greek names would be:Xenokleia
Nausicaa
Xanthikleia etc(I guess my definition of "unusual" Greek name are names that would generally be viewed in the real world as extremely pretentious and superfluous, as well as just plain weird LOL) (in other words, I wouldn't really count Acacia or Athena etc. but I would count Lethe and Diokleia)
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Persephone
Harmonia
Arsinoe
Thalassa
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Iphigenia. And Myrto.
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The only one of the Greek names I love I would consider even semi-unusual is Hermione.
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Thessaly
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Does Calliope count? When I told someone I liked it, they looked at me like I had a second head growing out of my shoulder.
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I'm not sure how to pronounce those names. Would you count Aristeides as unusual? I don't know may Greek names. And I prefer the ones that are easier to pronounce.
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Thessalonica
Mnestra
Olympias
Ptolemais
Anticlea
Sparta (the name of a nymph before it was a place name)
Philadelphia (a personal name before it was the name of the city)
Laocoosa
Polyxena
Polyhymnia
Panthea
Syrinx
Stratonice
Anaxibia
Io
IphianassaActor
Meleager
Achilles
Agenor
Zarex
Ajax
Cassander
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Hebe
Eurydice
Myrsine
Andromache
Leonidas
Parthenope
Parthenia
Ariadne
Briseis
Persephone
Hero
Antigone
Atalanta
Dido
Kyrene / Cyrene
Memphis (f)

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I'm a fan of Nyx, Cratus, Thanatos, Thanos, Nausicaa (I love this in the Slavic form Nausikaya), Styx and Alecto. Plus the usual ones like Ares, Athena, Thalia, Calliope, Eros...
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Is Danaë unusual enough? Guess not! But I love it, if it's pronounced dah-NAY (I assume that's how; Satran and Rosenkrantz say so in The Brilliant Book of Baby Names!)
Here's a weird one - Io. It's got one virtue: easy to spell!
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