Alcyone

Gender
Female (Feminine | Girl)
Meaning
Alcyone is named after the Greek goddess who was transformed into a kingfisher bird. The name means "queen who wards off evil" or "kingfisher".
Scripts(How to write)
Ἀλκυόνη(Ancient Greek)
Ἁλκυόνη (Halkyónē)
Pronunciation
al-SIE-ə-nee(English)
al-sie-uh-nee or al-sai-uh-nee
Popularity
Alcyone is not a common name in the world.

cartoon of the name Alcyone
Cartoon of Alcyone

Alcyone Name meanings & History

Alcyone is named after the Greek goddess who was transformed into a kingfisher bird. The name means "queen who wards off evil" or "kingfisher". Latinized form of Greek Ἀλκυόνη (Alkyone), derived from the word ἀλκυών (alkyon) meaning "kingfisher". In Greek myth this name belonged to a daughter of Aeolus and the wife of Ceyx. After her husband was killed in a shipwreck she threw herself into the water, but the gods saved her and turned them both into kingfishers. This is also the name of the brightest of the Pleiades, a group of stars in the constellation Taurus, supposedly the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. The name Alcyone is not frequently used as a given name.

Zodiac Sign of Alcyone: Action Aries

Synonyms of Alcyone:

A: Aggressive,Ambitious,Assertive,Argumentative,Action,Angry

L: Lovely,Luscious,Lover,Legal,Languid,Liaison,Lazy

C: Clever,Chatty,Copycat,Candid,Cute,Choice,Curious

Y: Yen/money,Youth-giving,Yin/Yang

O: Obstinate,Organized,Ostentatious,Obsessive,Obsolete

N: Nutrition,Neat,Nervous,Nitpicking,Nagging,Neurosis,Nice

E: Exaggerate,Environment,Entertain,Enliven,Enlighten,Expressive

Alcyone is:

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  • a Refined name
  • a Serious name
  • a Strange name
  • a Upper name
  • a Wholesome name