Mythological Names for Boys

In Estonian mythology, Ilmarine is a blacksmith who forges the celestial beings. He is immortal and capable of creating practically anything, but is portrayed as being unlucky in love.

Ilmarine

In Russian mythology, Indrik is the beast king of all animals. It lives on a "The Holy Mountain", where no other foot may tread. Indrik is depicted as a giant bull with the legs of a deer, the head of a horse, and an enormous horn in its snout.

Indrik

In Greek mythology, Ganymede was Trojan youth who was so beautiful that he was carried off to be Zeus' cup-bearer, and made immortal. His name may derive from Greek ganymai "to be glad" plus medomai "to think, to plan".

 
In astronomy, Ganymede is also the name of the largest moon of Jupiter. And in Shakespeare's comic play As You Like It, Ganymede is the name the heroine Rosalind chooses for herself when she disguises herself as a shepherd boy.