Hero and god names for boys
Naming a boy after a hero used to be literal; it's back in fashion by way of mythology.
These names step straight out of legend and into the current charts — each shown with today's rank.
Boys
- Atlas#75 today
- Griffin#222 today
- Adonis#241 today
- Maximus#275 today
- Ares#290 today
- Phoenix#329 today
- Orion#334 today
- Hector#409 today
- Apollo#445 today
- Odin#501 today
- Leonidas#510 today
- Cassius#582 today
- Evander#698 today
- Magnus#763 today
- Osiris#1075 today
- Ulysses#1196 today
- Perseus#1204 today
- Achilles#1290 today
- Titan#1290 today
- Zeus#1347 today
- Loki#1852 today
How this list is built: A curated set of hero and god names matched against the latest records; only names in real use appear. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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