Ostara

oh-STAR-ah

Old High German

"dawn"

Ostara Origin and Meaning

The name Ostara is a girl's name meaning "dawn".

In Germanic mythology, Ostara is the goddess of springtime, fertility, and dawn. Her existence as a mythological figure was pieced together by scholar Jacob Grimm, who used evidence such as the German word for April (ostermonat) and parallels to the Anglo-Saxon Eostre. Ostara is also the modern German name for the Easter holiday.

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