Mythological Names

Names from Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic and Egyptian myth. Worth reading the story before choosing: a great many of these figures come to spectacularly bad ends, and the name usually outlives the plot.

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59 names, most popular first in United States

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Aurora Aurora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn."
Girl Latin #15 in US
Penelope Penelope is a girl's name of Greek origin, borne in Homer's Odyssey by the wife of Odysseus, who held off suitors for twenty years by weaving a shroud she unpicked each night.
Girl Greek #22 in US
Luna Luna is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "moon."
Girl Latin #27 in US
Iris Iris is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "rainbow."
Girl Greek #61 in US
Maya Maya is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
Girl Sanskrit #62 in US
Atlas Atlas is a boy's name from Greek myth, where Atlas is the Titan condemned to hold up the sky.
Boy Greek #75 in US
Maeve Maeve is a girl's name of Irish origin, anglicized from Medb, usually translated as "she who intoxicates" or "intoxicating."
Girl Irish #76 in US
Athena Athena is a girl's name from the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare and craft.
Girl Greek #109 in US
Ariana Ariana is a girl's name of Greek origin, from Ariadne — the Cretan princess who gave Theseus the thread to escape the labyrinth.
Girl Greek #128 in US
Phoebe Phoebe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bright" or "radiant."
Girl Greek #157 in US
Jason Jason is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "healer."
Boy Greek #165 in US
Freya Freya is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "lady" or "noble woman."
Girl Norse #177 in US
Daphne Daphne is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "laurel tree."
Girl Greek #178 in US
Arianna Arianna is a girl's name, the Italian form of Ariadne, from a Greek name meaning most holy.
Girl Greek #234 in US
Adonis Adonis is a boy's name of Greek origin borrowed from a Semitic word for lord.
Boy Greek #241 in US
Diana Diana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "divine" or "heavenly," the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon.
Girl Latin #244 in US
Lilith Lilith is a girl's name of Mesopotamian origin, from a class of night spirits called lilitu in Akkadian.
Girl Akkadian #277 in US
Ares Ares is a boy's name of Greek origin, borne by the god of war.
Boy Greek #290 in US
Kali Kali is a girl's name of Sanskrit origin naming the Hindu goddess, from kala meaning both black and time.
Girl Sanskrit #323 in US
Orion Orion is a boy's name of Greek origin, borne by the mythological hunter and the constellation named for him.
Boy Greek #334 in US
Thea Thea is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "goddess."
Girl Greek #353 in US
Leandro Leandro is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "lion-man," borne by a lover who drowned swimming a strait to reach her.
Boy Italian #406 in US
Hector Hector is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "holding fast," borne by the Trojan prince who is the most sympathetic figure in the Iliad.
Boy Greek #409 in US
Maia Maia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "mother" or "nurse."
Girl Greek #433 in US
Apollo Apollo is a boy's name of Greek origin naming the god of light, music, prophecy and healing.
Boy Greek #446 in US
Calliope Calliope is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful-voiced".
Girl Greek #451 in US
Helen Helen is a girl's name from Greek whose meaning is not settled, though torch and shining are the usual readings.
Girl Greek #461 in US
Odin Odin is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning roughly "the frenzied one".
Boy Norse #502 in US
Cleo Cleo is a name of Greek origin meaning "glory" or "fame."
Unisex Greek #577 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
Alara Alara is a girl's name from Turkic mythology, where she is a water fairy.
Girl Turkish #653 in US
Conor Conor is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "lover of hounds," from the Irish Conchobhar.
Boy Irish #844 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
Cian Cian is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "ancient" or "enduring."
Boy Irish #1,313 in US
Conan Conan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little hound" or "little wolf," from the Irish cú with a diminutive ending.
Boy Irish #1,681 in US
Diane Diane is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "divine" or "heavenly," the French form of the Roman goddess Diana.
Girl French #2,637 in US
Doris Doris is a girl's name from Greek mythology, where she is a sea nymph and the mother of the fifty Nereids.
Girl Greek #2,913 in US
Aine Aine is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "radiance" or "brightness," borne by a goddess of sovereignty and midsummer in Munster.
Girl Irish #3,803 in US
Fionn Fionn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fair" or "white," and by extension bright or blessed.
Boy Irish #4,179 in US
Oisin Oisin is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little deer" or "fawn," from the Irish os, a deer.
Boy Irish #4,566 in US
Conall Conall is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "strong wolf," borne by the Ulster Cycle hero who avenges Cú Chulainn.
Boy Irish #5,056 in US
Léandre Léandre is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "lion man," the French form of Leander.
Boy French #5,280 in US
Ariane Ariane is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "most holy," borne by the woman whose thread got Theseus out of the labyrinth.
Girl French #6,375 in US
Daire Daire is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fruitful" or "fertile," borne by the man who owns the brown bull at the center of Ireland's national epic. It ranks 48th in Northern Ireland.
Boy Irish #6,576 in US
Meabh Meabh is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "she who intoxicates," from a root connected with mead.
Girl Irish #8,075 in US
Achille Achille is a boy's name of Greek origin, the French form of Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
Boy French #8,348 in US
Phyllis Phyllis is a girl's name from the Greek for foliage, borne by a mythological princess who was turned into an almond tree.
Girl Greek #12,073 in US

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