Your Favorite Ancient Name (Any Culture)

[katushka]

I've been on a huge ancient kick for boys for a while now, and I'm curious. What's your favorite ancient name? Not just Greek and Roman, any ancient culture.


I could have sworn that I saw something like this the other day, but I can't find it anywhere. Sorry if it's been done recently!

Edit: Or a list, it doesn't have to be just one. I know that would be almost impossible for some of you.

[mischa]

Here are some of my faves from different cultures. Most are from mythology.

Celtic: Judicael, Tristan, Cael, Cian/Cianan, Parthalan, Arthur, Bedivere,

Anglo-Saxon: Oswin, Alfred, Athelstan, Swithin/Swithun

Greek: Hilarion, Lysander, Apollo, Ulysses, Morpheus, Oceanus, Endymion, Phineas, Leander, Xanthus

Roman: Augustus, Aurelius, Cassius, Constantine, Cornelius, Decimus, Felix, Flavius, Hadrian, Horatius/Horatio, Lucius/Lucian, Marcus, Octavius, Seneca, Tarquin, Amadeus, Trajan, Valerian, Eligius, Ovid, Ignatius, Jupiter/Jove, Prosper and Virgil.

Germanic: Clovis, Meinrad, Odo/Otto, Siegfried

Old Norse: Thor, Odin, Sindri, Njord, Vidar

Turkish: Tamerlane

[esrever88]

Asher
Cyprian
Hiram
Michaiah
Oberon
Phineas
Silas

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

[hayley88]

Ra
Osiris
Rameses
Apollo
Zeus

Obviously these are strictly guilty pleasures...they don't exactly go with my surname!

[ksc89]

I am currently loving the names Cassius and Silas.

[dillonsfan01]

Constantine for sure!

[kathrynsarah]

Alexander
Phineas
Silas
Castor

[stripedsocks]

Cassius
Ptolemy
Lysander
Áedán
Eoin and Eoghan
Zacharias
Zebulon
Hezekiah
Cyrus
Ariel
Padraig
Raziel

[thetxbelle]

Eustace/Eustache
Aubéry
Anselme
Aristide (plan on using this should I ever have a son)
Evariste
Ulysse
Vianney
Baptiste
Ambrose
Amédé
Maxence
Bastien
Augustus/Augustin/Auguste
Clément
Gaëtan
Ronan (is this ancient? I recently discovered this)
honoré
Renaud

There are more, I really like ancient French names but I should probably stop there Edited to remove girls names!