Brief Life History of Maya Lisa
When Maya Lisa Johansdotter was born on 26 December 1754, her father, Johan Öderström, was 36 and her mother, Greta Frys, was 31. She died on 6 March 1755, in Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, at the age of 0.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Maya Lisa Johansdotter, "Sweden Baptisms, 1611-1920"
Parents and Siblings
1718– Male
1723–1756 Female
Siblings (2)
1754–1755 Female
1756–1756 Female
Name Meaning
version of May or a respelled form of the name of the Roman goddess Maia, influenced by the common English name May. The goddess Maia was one of the Pleiades, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione; she was the mother by Jupiter of Mercury. Her name seems to be derived from the root mai- ‘great’, seen also in Latin maior ‘larger’. In the case of the American writer Maya Angelou ( b. 1928 as Marguerite Johnson ), Maya is a nickname which she acquired in early childhood as a result of her younger brother's referring to her as ‘mya sista’.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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