Hero

Greek

"demi-god"

Hero Origin and Meaning

The name Hero is a girl's name of English, Greek origin meaning "demi-god".

Despite the possibility of gender confusion, the Hero in Greek myth was a woman. Myleene Klass got that when she chose Hero for her daughter, and Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Johnson used it as their daughter's middle--and we wouldn't be surprised to see more girls with this heroic name.

In Greek legend young Leander swam across dangerous waters every night to court his beloved Hero. In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Hero is the love interest of Claudio and cousin of Beatrice.

Hero Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1572 on Nameberry

Hero Popularity

• 1572 Nameberry 2025

20 Names Similar to Hero

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Hero.

• Echo
• Honor
• Holiday
• Artemis
• Calypso
• Story
• Hera
• Isis
• Juno
• Desdemona
• Nyx
• Hermione
• Io
• Blaze
• Delphi
• Clio
• Isolde
• Sybil
• Domino
• Leda

Famous People Named Hero

• Honeysuckle Hero Susan Weeks English actress
• Hero Wheeler (b. 2007) daughter of actress Hermione Norris and Simon Wheeler
• Hero Harper Quinn (b. 2011) daughter of singer Myleene Angela Klass of Hear'Say and Graham Quinn
• Romy Hero Johnson (b. 2012) daughter of actor Aaron Taylor,Johnson and Sam Taylor,Wood

Hero in Pop Culture

• Hero character from Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'
• Hero Duke character in webseries Nothing Much to Do
• Hero Brown character from 'Y: The Last Man'
• Hero Pavloussi intensely arrogant and egotistical wife of a Greek shipping tycoon in Patrick White's 'The Vivisector' (1970)
• Hero Farnsworth Ames character from Gillian, by Frank Yerby
• Hero a priestess of Aphrodite who threw herself into the sea when her lover Leander drowned
• "Hero" song by Cash Cash feat. Christina Perri