Who named the Earth as Earth?- interesting space facts.

Earth!
Earth is the English language name for our planet. But it isn't actually the universal name for 3rd rock from the sun. Like in Spanish it is called Tierra, it Dutch it is Aarde and in Swedish it is Jorden. The only thing they have in common is they are roughly related to soil or ground. Earth is also the only planet in our solar system that is not named after a Greek or roman God or Goddess. 
The word Earth started appearing in text around 8th century and since it is not named after God means it was actually named before we knew about other planets. This word also was perpetuated in the King James Bible of 1611 - it reads ' God called the dry land Earth...'

Coming back to the question 'Who named the Earth as Earth?' Honestly, there is no answer to this. There is no proof and evidence who named the Earth. We can only assume a lot of people looked down, decided on a soil, ground soundings word, and we called it that because it made sense.

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