Greek
boy names.
24 boy names of Greek origin, sorted by U.S. popularity.
Within the Greek boy side specifically, Christopher, George, and Andrew are the most-used in the U.S. record — a useful three-point sense of the register, since the rest of the list mostly varies between rarer literary, religious, and modern coinages.
This page shows 24 Greek boy names sorted by U.S. SSA totals — so the most-given names sit at the top and the rarer entries toward the bottom.
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