Greek Mythology Names
The Greek myths are the deepest name-well in Western storytelling: Olympians, Titans, muses, and the heroes of Homer. Some of these names have been in continuous American use for a century; others only stepped off the page in the last decade.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Captain of the Argo in the quest for the Golden Fleece. | 2,224#165 | Down 46 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
The Spartan queen whose abduction started the Trojan War. | 668#462 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
The besieged city itself, undone by a wooden horse. | 563#533 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
The Trojan prophetess fated to be right and never believed. | 463#631 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Odysseus's wife — twenty years of wit and loyalty. | 6,225#22 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Troy's noblest defender. | 779#409 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Goddess of the rainbow, messenger between gods and mortals. | 3,729#61 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The poet credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey. | 21#4,768 | Down 1,162 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Goddess of wisdom and strategy, patron of Athens. | 2,477#109 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The nymph who became a laurel tree to escape Apollo. | 1,740#178 | Up 237 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
A Titan of bright intellect; an epithet of Artemis. | 1,885#157 | Up 97 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Devoted to Demeter, goddess of the harvest. | 164#1,229 | Down 373 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
The Titan who holds up the sky. | 4,413#75 | Up 113 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The hunter placed among the stars as a constellation. | 1,012#334 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Titan mother of Zeus, Hera, and Poseidon. | 452#639 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Muse of comedy and one of the three Graces. | 446#648 | Up 154 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
The Spartan king who held Thermopylae with 300 men. | 591#510 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Titan goddess of the Moon. | 469#623 | Up 182 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The Trojan prince whose judgment of three goddesses sparked the war. | 60#2,326 | Down 237 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
God of the sun, music, and prophecy. | 708#445 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
First among the nine muses — epic poetry's own. | 682#451 | Up 241 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Queen of the underworld and goddess of spring's return. | 372#735 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The nymph left able only to repeat what she heard. | 78#2,339 | Down 671 rank positions in five years | 1984 | ||
Her thread led Theseus back out of the labyrinth. | 115#1,758 | Down 569 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
The Arcadian hero of Greek and Roman legend. | 389#698 | Up 349 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy, one heel excepted. | 151#1,290 | Down 239 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Goddess of the hunt and the Moon, Apollo's twin. | 246#1,017 | Down 59 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
The first woman, whose opened jar loosed the world's troubles. | 31#4,525 | Down 863 rank positions in five years | 1952 | ||
King of the Olympian gods. | 140#1,351 | Down 151 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Slayer of Medusa, rescuer of Andromeda. | 168#1,210 | Up 313 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Queen of Olympus, goddess of marriage. | 63#2,730 | Up 382 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Primordial goddess of the night. | 68#2,577 | Up 1,188 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The towering shield-bearer of the Iliad. | 36#3,242 | Up 899 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The island enchantress of the Odyssey. | 28#4,791 | Up 1,111 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.