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[Opinions] Re: Artemis for a boy
This really is a name which should be considered to be differently gendered depending on the spelling, like Frances and Francis.Artemis is the name of a goddess and should be for a girl.Artemas and Artemus are male. The character in the TV show and more recent film "The Wild Wild West" was Artemus Gordon. Artemas of Lystra is a man mentioned in the book of Titus in the New Testament. He is considered a saint by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches.Artemas was a male name in Greece which meant "gift of the goddess Artemis." The pronunciations were probably more different in Greek 2000 years ago than they are in modern English.https://biblehub.com/topical/a/artemas.htm
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tangentI'd definitely guess Frances for a girl and Francis for a boy, but I still think Francis looks nice as a unisex name and Frances looks dowdy.
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