Goddess Names
Every mythology reserved its most beautiful names for its goddesses. This list crosses pantheons — Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Hindu, and Irish — and every one of them is a name American parents have actually used.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Roman goddess of the hunt and the Moon. | 1,277#244 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Greek goddess of the rainbow. | 3,729#61 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Roman goddess of the dawn. | 7,065#15 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The Roman Moon, by name. | 6,076#27 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Roman goddess of flowers and spring. | 483#607 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Greek goddess of wisdom and just war. | 2,477#109 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
A bright Titan whose name became a classic. | 1,885#157 | Up 97 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Hindu goddess of time and transformation. | 948#323 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Norse goddess of love, beauty, and battle's chosen. | 1,746#176 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Mother of the Olympians. | 452#639 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Greek nymph, mother of Hermes; May is named for her. | 715#433 | Up 65 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
One of the three Graces — 'the blooming one'. | 446#648 | Up 154 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Rome's goddess of wisdom, Athena's counterpart. | 89#2,112 | Up 407 rank positions in five years | 1955 | ||
Egyptian goddess of magic and motherhood. | 128#1,625 | Up 826 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Roman goddess of love, the evening star. | 96#2,001 | Down 432 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
The Greek Moon, driving her silver chariot. | 469#623 | Up 182 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Keeper of Rome's eternal hearth-flame. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Irish goddess of poetry, smithcraft, and healing. | 61#2,784 | Down 364 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Goddess of spring and queen of the underworld — both. | 372#735 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The Greek earth itself, mother of the Titans. | 157#1,392 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Rome's queen of the gods. | 179#1,252 | Up 560 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Queen of Olympus, guardian of marriage. | 63#2,730 | Up 382 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Hindu goddess of prosperity and good fortune. | 18#6,452 | Down 241 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Primordial Greek goddess of night. | 68#2,577 | Up 1,188 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.