Meanings & themes
Percy Jackson names on the charts
30 names · 16 girls · 14 boys · records through 2025
The series did for Greek mythology what an earlier one did for wizards: it put a set of very old names in front of a generation of readers, and the records show several of them moving.
This guide has 30 names: 16 girl names and 14 boy names. A curated set of Percy Jackson character names matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.
Before the names
It works because the source material was already usable. Percy, Thalia, Nico, Hazel and Piper are all names with their own long American histories — the books simply made them visible again.
Each entry below appears in current birth records with a live rank.
Girl names
16 names
Boy names
14 names
- Leo#19 today
- Michael#21 today
- Ethan#24 today
- Luke#33 today
- Jason#165 today
- Nico#174 today
- Malcolm#272 today
- Travis#434 today
- Apollo#445 today
- Jake#457 today
- Frank#513 today
- Tyson#531 today
- Will#1193 today
- Percy#1276 today
Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.
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