Ancient Names Outside The Top 1000
These names connect with antiquity through historical bearers, classical roots, or mythology. The selection shows only names outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed; an unranked name has no published count for that year.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Demetrius Poliorcetes was a king of the Hellenistic world. | 164#1,229 | Down 373 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Dion of Syracuse was a fourth-century BCE political leader. | 155#1,268 | Down 316 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
The goddess of magic and motherhood, wife of Osiris. | 128#1,625 | Up 826 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
The elderly king whose counsel guides the Greeks in the Iliad. | 113#1,535 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
A Greek name borne by queens of the Ptolemaic dynasty. | 28#4,783 | Down 2,121 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
The Egyptian god associated with the dead and renewed life. | 200#1,077 | Down 160 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
A familiar spelling of the royal name borne by Ramesses II. | 95#1,721 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
The Olympian huntress, later closely associated with the Moon. | 246#1,017 | Down 59 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
From the Greek vocabulary of hospitality and guests. | 58#2,931 | Up 82 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The personification of strife. | 128#1,623 | Up 188 rank positions in five years | 1923 | ||
A Greek royal name borne by several queens of Ptolemaic Egypt. | 42#3,589 | Up 42 rank positions in five years | 1974 | ||
The personification of Earth in Greek creation stories. | 157#1,392 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
A divine figure named as Aphrodite's mother in the Iliad. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
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 | ||
Queen of the Roman gods and protector of marriage. | 179#1,252 | Up 560 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Zeno of Citium founded the Stoic school. | 53#2,537 | Up 956 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The Roman god of war and father of Romulus in legend. | 105#1,615 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
A Titan, mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos. | 97#1,989 | Up 326 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Queen of the Olympian gods and goddess of marriage. | 63#2,730 | Up 382 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The royal wife of Akhenaten, known from her celebrated portrait bust. | 11#9,287 | Down 1,443 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
The Muse of history. | 25#5,126 | Up 229 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
A Spartan commander in the Peloponnesian War. | 95#1,719 | Up 2,641 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The Greek goddess of love and beauty. | 16#6,869 | Down 765 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The chief Roman god, associated with the sky and thunder. | 37#3,211 | Down 506 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
A principal royal wife of Ramesses II. | 24#5,351 | Up 255 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
The primordial personification of night. | 68#2,577 | Up 1,188 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
A name borne by ancient Greek scholars, including Theon of Alexandria. | 18#5,365 | Up 2,623 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The jackal-associated god of embalming and the care of the dead. | 26#4,054 | Down 482 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The royal wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaten. | 6#14,773 | Down 1,413 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
A major Egyptian sun god. | 14#6,354 | Down 720 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The pharaonic name borne by a succession of Egyptian kings. | 14#6,359 | Down 724 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
The messenger god associated with trade and travelers. | 10#8,026 | Up 5,362 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The personification of truth, justice, and cosmic order. | 7#12,662 | Down 6,438 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
A goddess of retribution and the correction of excess. | —Unranked | — | 1996 | ||
The god of Thebes, often joined with Ra as Amun-Ra. | 9#8,295 | Down 183 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
The winged personification of victory. | —Unranked | — | 2023 | ||
The goddess of youth and cupbearer of the gods. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
The falcon-associated god closely connected with kingship. | 12#6,942 | new | 2018 | ||
The goddess of the hearth and its sacred fire. | 10#9,698 | Up 6,308 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The Greek dynastic name of Egypt's last ruling house. | 7#10,422 | Up 1,230 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
The official and architect associated with Djoser's Step Pyramid. | —Unranked | — | 1993 | ||
An Egyptian god associated with storms, conflict, and the desert. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
The Roman god of the sea. | 8#9,449 | new | 2022 | ||
A classical name for the god of the underworld. | 11#7,548 | new | 2025 | ||
The personification of fortune and a city's changing fortunes. | —Unranked | — | 1999 | ||
The goddess of grain and agriculture, mother of Persephone. | —Unranked | — | 2020 | ||
The creator god of Memphis and patron of craftspeople. | —Unranked | — | 2020 | ||
A goddess associated with crossroads, magic, and the night. | —Unranked | — | 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.