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Worldwide, Paraskeve (Paraskeve
) is a very rare primarily feminine, but scarcely masculine forename. The first name Paraskeve is habitual in Northern America, particularly the United States, where it is an extremely rare principally female, but very infrequently male name. Much less frequently, Paraskeve is the last name as well as the forename.
Paraskeve is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Paraskeva Pyatnitsa , the image based on personification of Friday and Параскева Матовић , character in Čedomir Ilić: a novel.