Apollo
Apollo is a boy name of Greek origin, meaning God of light, music and the sun.
What Apollo means
God of light, music and the sun.
Apollo sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Apollo comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Apollo is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Apollo?
Apollo sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Apollo
Two ideas meet in Apollo: light and brightness, music and Sky. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Apollo
These share Apollo's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Helios — The sun.
- Icarus — Follower; one who flew to the sun.
- Phoebus — Radiant and shining.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Elio — The sun.
- Sorin — Sun.
- Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.
- Dawn — First light of day.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Soleil — The sun.