Icarus
Icarus is a boy name of Greek origin, meaning Follower; one who flew to the sun.
What Icarus means
Follower; one who flew to the sun.
Icarus sits at 6 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Icarus 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.
Icarus is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Icarus?
Icarus 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 Icarus
Two ideas meet in Icarus: Sky and light and brightness. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Icarus
These share Icarus's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.
- Helios — The sun.
- Phoebus — Radiant and shining.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Elio — The sun.
- Sorin — Sun.
- Dawn — First light of day.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Soleil — The sun.
- Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.