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Heracles

Heracles is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Catalan.

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Heracles comes from Ancient Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Heracles’s family of names

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HeraclesHéraclesHerculesHerakles

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 2

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Ancient Greek

Hierocles

Hierocles is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek.

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Ancient Greek

Hiérocles

“holy” · “fame”

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Ancient Greek

Helüś

Helüś is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Vilamovian.

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Ancient Greek

Hadès

Hadès is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in French.

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Ancient Greek

Hermippus

Hermippus is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latin.

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Ancient Greek

Eumenes

Eumenes is a given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

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Ancient Greek

Eutyches

“fortunate”

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Ancient Greek

Péricles

“far-famed”

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>99% boys

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