Arthurian Names
Arthurian names come from a web of Welsh tales, French romances, and English retellings. This collection follows the characters across those traditions, identifying alternate forms without treating every version as the same story.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The king at the center of the Round Table tradition. | 3,847#87 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
A name borne by several women in Arthurian romance. | 1,007#305 | Up 214 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Morgan le Fay, whose role varies across Arthurian stories. | 977#312 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
The knight whose love story is bound to Isolde. | 1,103#309 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
A Round Table knight and brother of Bors. | 419#659 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The magician and adviser in Arthurian romance. | 59#2,343 | Up 149 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Geraint's wife in Welsh Arthurian romance. | 30#4,585 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
A name used for an enchantress in later Arthurian retellings. | 108#1,854 | Down 521 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Arthur's queen in the romance tradition. | 295#899 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
A knight of the Round Table and brother of Gawain. | 46#2,775 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Arthur's foster brother and seneschal in English romance. | 10#7,947 | Down 147 rank positions in five years | 1934 | ||
A knight associated with the quest for the Grail. | 113#1,536 | Up 1,183 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Arthur's foster father in Malory. | —Unranked | — | 1995 | ||
A form of Morgan, Arthur's sister and an enchantress. | 19#6,260 | Down 251 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The knight whose love for Guinevere divides the court. | 12#7,030 | Up 6,222 rank positions in five years | 1984 | ||
The heroine of the Tristan romances. | 20#5,996 | Up 2,616 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
The form of Tristan used in Malory's Arthurian narrative. | —Unranked | — | 1987 | ||
An enchantress associated with Merlin and the Lady of the Lake. | 6#14,446 | Down 2,613 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Arthur's nephew and the hero of the Green Knight poem. | 5#12,654 | new | 1974 | ||
An alternative form of Isolde. | —Unranked | — | 2016 | ||
The French form used in Chretien de Troyes's Grail romance. | —Unranked | — | 2019 | ||
The knight who achieves the Grail quest in later romance. | —Unranked | — | 2024 |
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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.