Alcyone

Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Scripts Ἀλκυόνη(Ancient Greek)

Meaning

Latinized form of Greek Ἀλκυόνη (Alkyone), derived from the word ἀλκυών (alkyon) meaning “kingfisher”. In Greek myth this name belonged to a daughter of Aeolus and the wife of Ceyx. After her husband was killed in a shipwreck she threw herself into the water, but the gods saved her and turned them both into kingfishers. This is also the name of the brightest of the Pleiades, the seven stars in the constellation Taurus.
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