Eunice was the mother of Timothy, a believing Jewish woman married to a Greek. Paul names her among the family whose sincere faith shaped the young pastor, and it was she and her mother Lois who taught Timothy the Scriptures from childhood.
Her name means good victory. She is a beautiful model of a mother whose faithful, everyday teaching bore fruit far beyond her own home — through her son, the church across the world was blessed.
Eunice is a vintage, graceful name — increasingly rediscovered for its lovely meaning.
Variants & nicknames
Euniss, Unice
Eunice in the Bible
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.