Ancient Queens & Empresses
These names belong to queens, empresses, and royal women from antiquity. Some ruled in their own right, others held power as consorts or within imperial families; each note identifies the woman and her position.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Julia Domna was a Roman empress of the Severan dynasty. | 2,172#131 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
The mother of Constantine, honored as Augusta in the late Roman Empire. | 841#363 | Up 149 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Antonia Minor was the mother of the emperor Claudius. | 175#1,279 | Down 105 rank positions in five years | 1996 | ||
Octavia Minor was Augustus's sister and Mark Antony's wife. | 982#308 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
The sixth-century Byzantine empress and wife of Justinian I. | 384#726 | Up 110 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The Bactrian noblewoman who became Alexander the Great's wife. | 77#2,366 | Down 529 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
The wife of Augustus and a central figure of the early Roman Empire. | 332#820 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Cleopatra Selene II was a queen of Mauretania and daughter of Cleopatra VII. | 469#623 | Up 182 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Berenice II was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt. | 28#4,783 | Down 2,121 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Vibia Sabina was the Roman empress married to Hadrian. | 68#2,579 | Down 243 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
The third-century queen who ruled from Palmyra. | 18#6,540 | Down 3,142 rank positions in five years | 1923 | ||
Julia Drusilla was Caligula's sister, a member of the Roman imperial family. | 8#11,188 | Down 2,082 rank positions in five years | 1955 | ||
The name of several Ptolemaic queens, including Cleopatra VII of Egypt. | 42#3,589 | Up 42 rank positions in five years | 1974 | ||
The name of two prominent Roman empresses of the Antonine dynasty. | 35#4,103 | Down 153 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
A daughter of Marcus Aurelius and wife of the emperor Lucius Verus. | 11#9,228 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 1955 | ||
The royal wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. | 11#9,287 | Down 1,443 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
A principal royal wife of Ramesses II. | 24#5,351 | Up 255 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
The royal wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaten. | 6#14,773 | Down 1,413 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
The queen of the Massagetae in Herodotus's account. | —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.