Male name
When is Themistoklis’ name day?
Θεμιστοκλής · Themistoklis
Main name day
Saint Themistocles
The Greek name Θεμιστοκλής (Themistoklis) is celebrated on 21 December.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Themistocles the Martyr3rd centuryShepherd from Myra in Lycia martyred in the third century.Themistocles was a shepherd at Myra in Lycia in the time of Emperor Decius. When Asclepius, who was persecuting Christians, sent men to arrest the martyr Dioscorides, who had taken refuge on the mountain where Themistocles kept his flock, the soldiers came upon Themistocles first.Read more
- Saints Terence, Pompeius, Africanus, Maximus, Theodore and their companions3rd centuryThird-century martyrs; the synaxarion lists many classical names among their companions, such as Pericles, Socrates and Miltiades.Saints Aphrikanos, Theodore, Maximus, Pompeius and Terentius were martyred in 250 AD, under Emperor Decius, at Carthage in Africa, together with thirty-nine other Christians whom the synaxarion lists by name, among them many classical Greek names such as Socrates, Pericles and Miltiades.Read more
Variants and other forms
- Other Greek forms and diminutives
- Θέμης
- In Latin letters
- Themistoklis, Themis
- English equivalents
- Themistocles
- In Greek
- Θεμιστοκλής