Greek baby names include choices from ancient mythology along with modern Greek names both familiar to English speakers and those used mainly in Greece. As mythological and classic names become more popular, Greek names are found more often in nurseries and on playgrounds around the world. 
 
Greek names in the US Top 200 for girls include Alexandra, Chloe, Katherine, Sophia, and Zoe. For boys, Greek names in the US Top 300 include Alexander, Andrew, Elias, Lucas, and Phoenix. In Greece, popular names include Constantine, Nicholas, Eleni, and Vasiliki.
 
Many Greek baby names have traveled far and wide from their origins in Greece. But there are other Greek names that are attracting new interest that are more distinctly Greek: Cassia and Ione for girls, for instance, and Homer and Linus for boys. 
 
If you’re interested in Greek names for your baby, here is our full range. The top names below rank among the current US Top 1000 Baby Names and are ordered by popularity. Unique names rank below the Top 1000 and are listed alphabetically.

Greek Names

Atalanta was a beautiful mythological maiden who refused to marry any man who couldn't beat her in a footrace -- quite a role model. This myth is found in Ovid's Metamorphoses and later in Swinburne's Atalantis in Calydon.
 The addition of a fourth 'a' takes this out of the area of place names into a more rhythmic and romantic realm.

Atalanta

This spelling of Electra makes this vibrant name less electric and more kinetic.

Elektra

Sounds like the name of a new synthetic fabric. 

Xylon

Rare and distinctive name with intimations of antiquity, also a Shakespearean character. 

Cleon

Medora is a Greek name much less common here than, say, Melanie or Melissa.  It has some literary references, including as the beautiful and passionate heroine of Lord Byron's poem The Corsair, and in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, there is a character named Marchioness Melora Manson.

Medora

This name of a daughter of Zeus has an intriguing air of antiquity. 

Zenaida

Related to the word democracy, and easier as a name. 

Demos

This version of the name of a Greek nymph, based on the ancient city of Larisa, is widely used in Russia thanks to a martyr saint venerated by the Eastern Church.

Larisa

Sounds like Serena, but refers to the mythological sirens -- half woman, half bird -- who virtually sang men to death. Not a great role model for your little girl. 

Sirena

Trending down, along with others of both the Car and the issa groups. 

Carissa

This ancient saint's name was borne by the infamous midcentury playboy, Porfirio Rubirosa. 

Porfirio

Filomena

Familiar through the similarly pronounced TV Warrior Princess, but the original Xena spelling is cooler. 

Zena

Letha is taken from Lethe, the mythological River of Oblivion.  Letha now sounds as if it's missing a first syllable. 

Letha

Brought into the mix by actress Tea (born Elizabeth Tea) Leoni, an attractive feminine option in the Mia/Lea mode.  If you feel the need to lengthen it, you could go to Teadora or Teodora.

Téa

Rarely heard New Testament name -- he was a friend of Saint Paul -- that might conceivably stand up to modern usage. 

Philemon

Hillary is a lovely name that, for the moment at least, is tightly bound to an individual with a strong image: Hillary Clinton. Whatever your feelings about Mrs. Clinton, her fame now dominates the name, making it feel less baby-ready than it deserves to be. Hillary as a name has so much going for it: the popular, rhythmic three-syllable structure, the fact that it's strong but light, proper but jaunty, with an irresistible meaning -- having the same root as hilarious. The Italian Ilaria may be one way to make the name fresh. 
 Traditionally, Hilary was the form used for males and Hillary for females, but since there are so few boy Hilarys these days, that tradition has fallen by the wayside. A few other modern notables have laid claim to the name: musicians Hilary du Pre and Hilary Hahn, and actresses Hilary Swank and Hilary Duff.

Hillary

The current wife of Donald Trump, Slovenian model Melania Knauss, brought this pretty version to the fore. Saint Melania was an heiress who freed thousands of enslaved people. 

Melania

A figure in Greek drama who murdered his mother makes for an unconventional choice for a baby name, but it has appeared on the US extended list several dozen times since records began.

Orestes

A name that conjures up billionaire shipping magnates like, for instance, Stavros Niarcos.


Stavros

Greek names

Names of Greek origin for baby girls and boys with meaning and popularity