Damaris was among the few who believed when Paul preached to the philosophers of Athens at the Areopagus — a difficult, skeptical audience. Amid a crowd that mostly mocked or delayed, she is named specifically as one who clave unto him, and believed.
Her mention, brief as it is, honours a woman of the intellectual capital of the ancient world who embraced the gospel when many turned away. Her name means gentle.
Damaris is a distinctive, elegant name — uncommon and lovely, with a graceful sound.
Variants & nicknames
Damara, Dameris
Damaris in the Bible
Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.