Duessa

Duessa Name meanings & History

Duessa is an English name with possible French roots. The name Duessa is a variation of the name Duesa, which means "two." It can also be linked to the Latin word "duo," meaning "two" or "double.". This name was used by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser, who perhaps intended it to mean "second", "disunity" or "duplicitous" from Latin duo "two" combined with the feminine suffix essa. In his epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1590) it was the name of an evil, ugly witch, allegorically representative of Mary Queen of Scots and the Roman Catholic Church.