Greek Girl Names That Mean Snow

Only one name here is snow in the strictest sense: Crystal comes straight from the Greek krystallos, meaning 'clear ice,' the same root that gives English the word crystal itself. Everything else on this list arrives at winter sideways, through myth rather than through the dictionary.

That sideways route runs straight through Persephone, whose annual descent to the underworld is the old Greek explanation for why winter, and its snow, arrives at all every year. The rest of the page follows other Greek threads, and a few names that only borrow the neighborhood, from muses and victors to a handful of noble names with roots elsewhere.

Greek girl names that mean snow, and the ones that don't

In this collection, Crystal is the one true match, built on the Greek word for clear ice. Persephone earns her place differently: Greek mythology credits her yearly return from the underworld with bringing on winter itself, so her name carries the season even though it does not translate to snow directly. Together they show two ways a Greek name can hold onto ice, through the word itself, or through the story behind it.

Not every name on this list is Greek by root

Calliope and Kalliope both mean 'beautiful voice,' honoring the Greek muse of epic poetry, and Penelope carries her own Greek myth as the weaver from Homer's Odyssey. Veronica and Bernice both trace to a Greek 'bringer of victory.' Alyssa, Alesia, and Alix, though, all point back to 'noble' through Germanic and French roots instead.