Ancient Greek Names
Ancient Greece offers more than a pantheon. This collection includes historical bearers, names from classical stories, and modern forms with ancient Greek roots; each note explains the connection.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Helen of Sparta stands at the center of the Trojan War story. | 668#462 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
The Greek word for bee, also found in ancient myth. | 747#420 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 1979 | ||
Alexander the Great carried this Greek name across his empire. | 7,230#30 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
The Greek word for wisdom, later established as a personal name. | 12,561#5 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
From Eirene, the Greek personification of peace. | 442#651 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
The English form of Philippos, borne by kings of Macedon. | 568#528 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 1953 | ||
The feminine form of Alexander, a name with ancient Greek roots. | 1,314#237 | Down 99 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
The queen of Ithaca in Homer's Odyssey. | 6,225#22 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Troy's leading defender in Homer's Iliad. | 779#409 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Damon and Pythias became a classical model of friendship. | 604#501 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 1976 | ||
A Titan's name that continued into later Greek naming. | 1,885#157 | Up 97 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Demetrius Poliorcetes was a king of the Hellenistic world. | 164#1,229 | Down 373 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
An English name recalling the Dorians, one of ancient Greece's peoples. | 557#539 | Down 27 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
A modern short form of Nicholas, whose roots are ancient Greek. | 2,066#174 | Up 144 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Dion of Syracuse was a fourth-century BCE political leader. | 155#1,268 | Down 316 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
The elderly king whose counsel guides the Greeks in the Iliad. | 113#1,535 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
The Spartan king remembered for Thermopylae. | 591#510 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
From the Greek vocabulary of hospitality and guests. | 58#2,931 | Up 82 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
An Athenian woman associated with Alexander's court. | 26#5,086 | Up 744 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
A figure in Greek legend and classical tragedy. | 15#7,407 | Down 1,795 rank positions in five years | 1971 | ||
Daughter of Helen and Menelaus in Greek myth. | 95#2,008 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Zeno of Citium founded the Stoic school. | 53#2,537 | Up 956 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
A Spartan commander in the Peloponnesian War. | 95#1,719 | Up 2,641 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A name borne by ancient Greek scholars, including Theon of Alexandria. | 18#5,365 | Up 2,623 rank positions in five years | 2022 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.