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Demicia - origins?

by Higuma Kanora

8/12/2018, 11:40 PM

I came across a woman on facebook with the middle name Demicia and looked it up, but I can't seem to find any information about it's origins. There doesn't seem to be many people with that name but the ones I did come across seemed to point it towards being most prominent with Blacks and Hispanics. Any idea about it's origins?

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- elbowin

8/13/2018, 9:06 AM

Not a definite explanation, but I saw that Demicia is a brand name of perfumes. Naming baby girls after perfumes has occurred on several occasions, so this is a *possible* explanation.

-- elbowin

- SugarPlumFairy +2

8/13/2018, 6:00 AM

You can never be sure with Latin names, but there doesn't seem to be any Saint or literary/historical character with that name (or Demicio), which makes me think it was invented. My guess is that it is a variation of Domicia (Latin: Domitia), perhaps inspired by the names Demi and Demetria.

- Dorchadas (Lucille)

8/17/2018, 1:17 PM

My guess is that it is a variation of Domicia (Latin: Domitia), perhaps inspired by the names Demi and Demetria.

This, or a contracted form of Demetricia (which I guess is a combination of Demetria and Patricia or an other name ending in -cia).

- Higuma Kanora

8/14/2018, 2:25 AM

That's what I was thinking too, that it could be invented. It just confused me how, then, the people with that name seem to come from various countries; did they all randomly have the same idea for a name?

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