Eutychia (), phonetically transliterated as Eftychia or Eftichia () is a Greek female given name, meaning "happiness". It is derived from the

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

words εὖ (good) and τύχη (luck). The diminutive

Effie Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Efthymia (Greek: Ευθυμία), Eftychia (Greek: Ευτυχία), or Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include: Women * Effie Bancroft (1840� ...

is a pet form of Eftychia. Notable people with the given name include: *

Eftychia Karagianni Eftychia Karagianni (, born 10 October 1973) is a female Greek water polo player and Olympic silver medalist with the Greece women's national water polo team. She received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in 2004 Athens. She receive ...

(born 1973), Greek water polo player and Olympic medalist *

Eftichia Michailidou Eftichia "Efi" Michailidou (born 20 September 1977) is a Greek retired football midfielder who played for the Greece women's national football team. She competed for Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officiall ...

(born 1977), Greek footballer * Eftichia Papagianopoulos (1893–1972), Greek lyricist *

Eftychia Papavasilopoulou Eftychia Pappa-Papavasilopoulou (; born October 3, 1981, in New York, New York, United States) is a female Greek-American diver, who specialized in individual and synchronized platform events. At age nineteen, Papavasilopoulou made her official d ...

(born 1981), Greek-American diver * Effy Vayena (born 1972), Greek and Swiss bioethicist

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