What’s Your Favorite Mythological Name?

Updated Tue May 20 2014

Mythological names from a range of cultures are one of the hottest and most surprising baby name trends of recent years.

From Freya (that’s her in the picture) to Finn, Juno to Orion, ancient god and goddess names have begun populating modern nurseries and playgrounds.

What do you think of this style in general? Do the personas and powers of the mythological figure factor into your liking of the names? And what’s your favorite mythological name or names?

To jog your memory, here are our lists of Mythological Names, Mythological Names for Girls and Mythological Names for Boys, along with a separate somewhat different list of Goddess Baby Names.

Which do you like the best?

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Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

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