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Greek Names

Greek names are the most transparent group here: a large share are compounds whose parts still mean something, so the name says what it says. That transparency is also why Greek meanings are the most confidently mistranslated on the wider internet — a compound is easy to take apart and easy to take apart wrongly.

Languages behind these names Greek uncertain Ancient Greek via Latin via French

Rankings for

349 names, most popular first in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Paris Paris has two unrelated sources — the Trojan prince and the French city — and France barely uses it, ranking the name 7188th while the United States has it at 592nd and 80 percent female.
Unisex Greek #592 in US
Gregory Gregory is a boy's name from the Greek for watchful or alert.
Boy Greek #593 in US
Halo Halo is a unisex name taken from the ring of light, whose Greek root halos meant a threshing floor — the circular patch of ground where oxen trod in circles to separate grain.
Unisex Greek #612 in US
Selene Peaked in 2025 · 13,838 births since 1919
Girl Greek #622 in US
Cassandra Cassandra is a girl's name from Greek myth, borne by a prophet cursed to see the future and never be believed.
Girl Greek #630 in US
Rhea Rhea is a girl's name of Greek origin borne by the Titan who was mother of Zeus.
Girl Greek #639 in US
Chris Chris shortens two unrelated Greek names — Christopher, which means bearing Christ, and Christine, which means belonging to Christ.
Unisex Greek #646 in US
Thalia Peaked in 1993 · 24,609 births since 1885
Girl Greek #647 in US
Irene Irene is a girl's name from the Greek word for peace, and the name of the goddess who personified it.
Girl Greek #651 in US
Phillip Phillip is a boy's name meaning lover of horses, the doubled-l spelling of Philip.
Boy Greek #651 in US
Melina Melina means honey, and the Greek word behind it is one of the oldest recoverable in Europe — meli is attested in Mycenaean Greek and its relatives run from Hittite to English mildew.
Girl Greek #660 in US
Dennis Dennis is a boy's name that traces back to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstatic release — one of the few widely used Christian names derived from a pagan deity.
Boy Greek #708 in US
Ocean Ocean is a unisex name taken from the English word, which comes through Latin from the Greek Okeanos — a Titan who was the great river the Greeks believed encircled the whole world, rather than a word for the sea itself.
Unisex Greek #717 in US
Kathryn Kathryn is a girl's name, the y-spelling of Katherine, and it inherits that name's genuinely unknown meaning.
Girl Greek #729 in US
Iliana Peaked in 2007 · 17,478 births since 1955
Girl Greek #730 in US
Xyla Peaked in 2025 · 2,505 births since 1999
Girl Greek #761 in US
Kyree Peaked in 2017 · 9,321 births since 1979
Boy Greek #782 in US
Kyra Kyra means lady, and the Greek behind it is the feminine of the word Christians use for the Lord — kyrios, as in kyrie eleison, which is the oldest Greek surviving in the Latin mass.
Girl Greek #828 in US
Tiffany Tiffany is a medieval name meaning manifestation of God, given to girls born at Epiphany — a genuinely old name that now reads as thoroughly modern.
Girl Greek #879 in US
Makari Peaked in 2025 · 2,097 births since 1998
Unisex Greek #919 in US
Eugene Eugene is a boy's name from the Greek for well-born, and it is the source of the word eugenics — a connection worth knowing, since the name long predates and has nothing to do with that movement.
Boy Greek #944 in US
Mariella Peaked in 2025 · 7,066 births since 1914
Girl Greek #944 in US
Felipe Peaked in 1993 · 33,690 births since 1880
Boy Greek #956 in US
Barbara Barbara is a girl's name from the Greek for foreign or strange, the feminine of the word that gives us barbarian.
Girl Greek #969 in US
Cynthia Cynthia is a girl's name that began as a title for the moon goddess — it means she of Mount Cynthus, the peak on Delos where Artemis was said to have been born.
Girl Greek #1,013 in US
Agnes Agnes is a girl's name from the Greek for pure, and the reason its saint is shown with a lamb is a Latin pun — agnus, lamb, sounds like the Greek hagnos but is a completely different word.
Girl Greek #1,016 in US
Marjorie Marjorie is a girl's name meaning pearl, an English form of Margaret whose modern spelling was pulled toward the herb marjoram by nothing more than a coincidence of sound.
Girl Greek #1,018 in US
Stefan Peaked in 1991 · 32,420 births since 1910
Boy Greek #1,021 in US
Alexa Alexa did not simply collapse when Amazon launched the Echo — it rose first.
Girl Greek #1,030 in US
Eleni Peaked in 2024 · 8,953 births since 1946
Girl Greek #1,039 in US
Alexia Alexia means defender, and it is also a clinical term — alexia is the medical name for acquired inability to read, from the same Greek root by a completely separate route.
Girl Greek #1,040 in US
Melani Peaked in 2020 · 6,054 births since 1947
Girl Greek #1,055 in US
Sapphire Peaked in 2022 · 8,260 births since 1979
Girl Greek #1,057 in US
Simeon Peaked in 2019 · 16,719 births since 1880
Boy Greek #1,092 in US
Kit Kit is a name of Greek origin meaning "bearer of Christ."
Unisex Greek #1,103 in US
Sia Peaked in 2025 · 5,060 births since 1968
Girl Greek #1,107 in US
Crystal Crystal is a girl's name from the Greek for ice, taken from the mineral rather than from any personal name.
Girl Greek #1,148 in US
Melania Peaked in 2017 · 4,401 births since 1913
Girl Greek #1,172 in US
Kassandra Peaked in 1993 · 42,143 births since 1945
Girl Greek #1,174 in US
Evangelina Peaked in 2012 · 10,843 births since 1908
Girl Greek #1,189 in US
Demetrius Peaked in 1991 · 38,062 births since 1912
Boy Greek #1,227 in US
Jerome Jerome is a boy's name meaning sacred name, and it belongs to the scholar who translated the Bible into Latin — the version Western Europe read for over a thousand years.
Boy Greek #1,259 in US
Zoie Peaked in 2006 · 11,588 births since 1905
Girl Greek #1,266 in US
Xena Peaked in 1996 · 4,238 births since 1992
Girl Greek #1,268 in US
Andreas Peaked in 2006 · 16,605 births since 1913
Boy Greek #1,279 in US
Rita Rita is a girl's name meaning pearl, clipped from the end of Margarita rather than the front.
Girl Greek #1,290 in US
Achilles Peaked in 2018 · 4,299 births since 1912
Boy Greek #1,290 in US
Titan Peaked in 2017 · 5,853 births since 1979
Boy Greek #1,292 in US

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