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Epic Names for Boys

There are 16 Epic names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Epic names 1 to 16. Troy was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the German, Italian, and Spanish Orlando, the English, French, German, and Welsh Roland, the English and Greek Adonis, and the English name, Milton. The unusual Epic names are Álvaro (Portuguese and Spanish), Beowulf (English), Fingal (Scottish), Firdaus (Arabic and Iranian), Günther (German), Homer (English), Rama (Indian), Ramachandra (Indian), Siegfried (English and German), Tapio (Finnish), and Wolfram (German).

Epic names are somewhat popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1912, 0.644% of baby boys were given Epic names. There were 5 Epic names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Epic names have since experienced a decline in frequency, and in recent years they are of occasional use. In 2008, 5 Epic names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 0.140%. Within all Epic names, the English Troy was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #231 and a usage of 0.0731%.

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Adonis Popularity Trend of Adonis
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 854 854 lord, ruler ... in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene ...

Álvaro guard of all ... in the Spanish epic the Cantar de Mio Cid, ...

Beowulf bear ... 8th-century Old English epic poem bearing the same ...

Fingal fair stranger ... in James Macpherson's epic poem Fingal (1762), ...

Firdaus paradise ... the Iranian national epic, the Shahnameh. ...

Günther fight; army, warrior ... was also told in the epic poem, the ...

Homer Popularity Trend of Homer
from 1900 to 2008. hostage ... the 8th century Greek epic poet Homeros, who wrote ...

Milton Popularity Trend of Milton
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 923 923 mill town, middle of ... most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ...

Orlando Popularity Trend of Orlando
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 419 419 famous landowner ... world, appearing in epic romance poems such as ...

Rama pleasing ... hero of the Ramayana epic ...

Ramachandra Rama moon ... the Ramayana epic, this is the full name of the ...

Roland Popularity Trend of Roland
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 757 757 famous landowner ...

Siegfried victory; peace, protection, ... the Nibelungenlied, an epic poem in Middle High ...

Tapio appeared in the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, and he ...

Troy Popularity Trend of Troy
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 231 231 man from Troyes; foot ... described in the Greek Epic Cycle and retold in ...

Wolfram wolf; raven; going; ... one of the greatest epic poets of his era. ...


Popularity Trend
for Epic Names
from 1900 to 2006Variant Popularity Chart
for Epic Names
in 2006